Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...potholed roadway. The landmarks were typical of a rural Russian administrative center. A tank seemed poised to topple off the memorial honoring the heroism of local citizens in the Great Fatherland War, as World War II is known. A crane loomed above the construction site of the new Communist Party headquarters, just across from an imposing statue of Lenin thrusting his arm into the future. Political posters and slogans of a type that had all but vanished from Moscow could be seen on billboards and atop apartment houses...
During lunch at the Tolna Hotel, Alexander Kuznetsov, the deputy chief of the ideology section of the Tambov Regional Communist Party Committee, assured us that "all the processes of change going on in Moscow make their way to us in Tambov, if somewhat later on." We needed to be convinced. I made clear that both of us knew enough to recognize a pokazukha, or staged event, when...
...week before our arrival in Tambov, the drivers on two trolleybus lines had gone on strike, protesting the dreadful condition of the roads Tambovskaya Pravda, the local Communist Party daily, devoted the front page to a regional party committee meeting, examining the fate of those repressed under Stalin Elections had been held for a new factory director In the town of Michurinsk, 40 miles to the northwest, an ecology rally had been organized, drawing more than 1,000 people...
Despite these shifts, change is taking place within a narrow framework. Children must still be taught socialist values; how educators will reconcile that with the promotion of a freer learning environment remains to be seen. Some Soviets do not anticipate major problems. Said Boguslovsky: "I'm a Communist Party member, but I speak openly. To me, the two things are not mutually exclusive. I can be a Communist and also speak the truth...
Elektrosila is an exception among Soviet factories, which lag at least a generation behind their Western counterparts in efficiency and quality. The typical Soviet plant's labor productivity is a paltry one-third the average level of factories in non-Communist industrial countries. At the same time, Soviet plants use two to three times as much energy and raw materials as ( Western factories consume for the same amount of output. Since most Soviet plants answer only to bureaucrats instead of consumers, finished merchandise is often shoddy or simply the wrong type of product to meet demand...