Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...land hardly famous for political comebacks, Boris Yeltsin, the brash populist who a year ago was ousted as Moscow Communist Party boss and candidate member of the Politburo, has become a symbol of the opportunities and obstacles that Gorbachev now faces. Yeltsin's triumph, along with the defeat of party hacks from Siberia to Lithuania, represented a rousing endorsement of Gorbachev's vision of perestroika. But it also represented a feisty revolt against the failure of his reforms to improve the harsh realities of Soviet life...
Gorbachev has been able to demote but not purge from the Communist Party's ruling Politburo Yegor Ligachev, his conservative thorn. Ligachev and his allies, who include former KGB chief Victor Chebrikov, could become even more antagonistic out of dismay at the fate of fellow party traditionalists in the election. None is likely to try to pull off a coup, but it is possible that they could force Gorbachev to water down the reforms...
...death of Communism may be premature, but there are signs that a verdict is being reached in the long twilight struggle between this century's two dominant ideologies. While scrambling to find euphemisms for such apostate phrases as "private property," the Soviets are jettisoning many of their Communist tenets in favor of some that are at the heart of democratic capitalism: contested elections, pluralism, codified individual rights, market incentives and the reward of private enterprise...
...Rent control, which was originally put forward by Communist students and militant Blacks, has become the dominant issue in city politics," says William B. Cunningham, an activist who worked to get rent control enacted...
...despite a show of friendship between thecharismatic leaders of the two communist allies, aseries of arrests in Havana yesterday underscoredthe differences between the pragmatic liberalismespoused by Gorbachev and the tight control stillexercised by Castro 30 years after he led aguerrilla army to victory over a right-wingdictatorship