Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Poland's economic crisis showing no signs of easing, the government of Prime Minister Zbigniew Messner resigned last week, the first time an entire Cabinet has stepped down since Communist rule began in 1945. A new government, possibly including lay Catholics and moderate opposition figures, is expected to be installed this week. One of its first jobs: conducting negotiations next month with the Solidarity trade union, outlawed since 1981, and its leader Lech Walesa. In his first interview since agreeing to the talks, Walesa met with TIME Eastern Europe bureau chief Kenneth W. Banta and reporter Gertraud Lessing...
...Doesn't that mean ending Communist domination in Poland...
...extraordinary meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee made the biggest changes in the Soviet hierarchy since Gorbachev became party general secretary in 1985. Top party ranks were virtually stripped of appointees made by his predecessors...
...party's top job in agriculture, once held by Gorbachev himself, is key under the Communist Party chief's ambitious plan for economic reform. But it carries far less prestige than the portfolio for ideology, the post customarily held by the party...
Xueliang entered the Red Guard after two years of junior high school in 1966. "I had no experience with political activities; but at that time we were convinced by Communist party propaganda that the Cultural Revolution would determine the fate of the party, the nation, the people, and everything we respected and valued," he explained...