Word: democratizatsiya
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...world that has largely welcomed and supported Gorbachev's original course toward reform and democratizatsiya, it is not easy to find the proper response to his right turn. The West has, in effect, purchased stock in Gorbachev's enterprise and desperately wants it to succeed. Gorbachev is the man who ended the cold war. Who or what might follow him is a question fraught with worry...
...picture might be on their posters too. However, that would be because the demonstrators would see him as not just a reformer but a liberator. That is one role that Mikhail Gorbachev does not want, since it could make him the protagonist in a tragedy. If glasnost and democratizatsiya seem to be tearing the Soviet Union apart, Gorbachev may be in the position of having either to order a crackdown himself or to yield to a successor who would do so. He, like Deng, may yet discover that starting a counterrevolution is far easier than determining where it leads...
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