Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lenin Mausoleum. Gargoyles in fur hats. Perhaps Gorbachev's most obvious accomplishment is that he has reinvented the idea of a Soviet leader. Virtually everything about his country and its place in world affairs seems less ponderous, less opaque than it did before he became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R...
...openness) and perestroika (restructuring) may turn out to be less "irreversible" than Gorbachev proclaims them to be. Even so, his reforms can no longer be dismissed as a mere matter of style, of a telegenic new face in the Kremlin. Gorbachev is that, to be sure. Also a dedicated Communist. Also a ruthless political opportunist. In 1987 he became something more, a symbol of hope for a new kind of Soviet Union: more open, more concerned with the welfare of its citizens and less with the spread of its ideology and system abroad. For fanning that hope, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev...
...with Shintaro Abe, secretary-general of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, and chatted by phone with Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. Roh promised to seek improved relations with China after he takes office on Feb. 25. Any warming between the two nations could reduce tensions between Seoul and Communist North Korea, a staunch Beijing ally...
Also misleading. In most of his views, Gorbachev is a thoroughly Soviet, obdurately Communist figure. When he speaks of "democracy," as he incessantly does, he does not mean anything Thomas Jefferson would have recognized; he promotes freer discussion within the Communist Party only as a substitute for the political opposition he makes clear he will not tolerate. If he voices criticism of Soviet society, it is because that system has in his view strayed from the ideals of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state and Gorbachev's idol. And though he argues frequently for a new relationship...
...Soviet leader was terribly guarded about Communist politics and told Reagan almost nothing of his struggles inside the Kremlin. "He did seem aware of the problems that I have with Congress and the various political factions," Reagan said. "But he does not view events in the Kremlin the same way we view our government. We all know that he has his troubles too. He does not mention them...