Word: demokratizatsiya
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Even in the surprising era of demokratizatsiya, the sight of the head of government lobbying in the corridors of the Grand Kremlin Palace is an extraordinary spectacle. But these are extraordinary times for Gorbachev: at stake are not only his reforms and his own political health but also the survival of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...official banners that failed to brighten this sad city included two words: glasnost and demokratizatsiya. For the first time in the history of Soviet propaganda, those two words stand for genuine political virtues the leadership has introduced into the life of the citizenry. Yet in private conversation they often resonate with disappointment and foreboding, as though they were euphemisms for the messiness of current events and some vague chaos still to come...
...Communist Party plenum in February, "for five years has brought us into crisis, anarchy and economic decay." Still, it is worth remembering that dissatisfaction in the Soviet Union, while real and legitimate, is wired into two new amplifiers: glasnost (outspoken letters to the editor of Pravda) and demokratizatsiya (outspoken delegates to the Supreme Soviet...
While the Baltics have a special claim to independence, visible fault lines have appeared among several republics as glasnost allowed the non-Russian peoples to speak their hidden thoughts and demokratizatsiya opened the door to new organizations and popular movements. National fronts were formed in almost every part of the country to advance ethnic, linguistic and cultural causes. Marx and Lenin had held that life under socialism would submerge such differences in the sea of workers' internationalist unity. As has so often been the case, Marxist-Leninist theory was wrong...
Does he have a year? Paul Goble, deputy director of research at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, argues that if Gorbachev still intends to follow the path of perestroika and demokratizatsiya, he will have to allow the Baltics to break away by Christmas and possibly Moldavia not long thereafter. Some experts, such as Francois Heisbourg, director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, believe Gorbachev will use military force as a last resort to hold things together. Western intelligence officers, however, say the army has intervened very reluctantly in ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus and Central Asia and will...