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Welcome to the "Second Revolution," a phrase used by both Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to describe the upheaval in economics and ideas now under way in the two Communist powers. The Chinese speak of gai ge (reform) or kai fang (opening up). The Soviets refer to perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). What the new slogans herald is the most far-ranging shift in course since Dictator Joseph Stalin drove the Soviet Union onto the path of forced collectivization and heavy industrialization in the 1930s and Beijing's Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong, launched the Cultural...
...Tiananmen Square, long queues of Chinese pilgrims enter the imposing mausoleum of Chairman Mao for a fleeting glimpse of the flag-draped body. The scars of the Maoist era are still too fresh for the Chinese to emulate completely the Soviet Union's new view of history. But Deng's new society has found its own way of demythologizing the past. Visitors leaving the monument mob souvenir stands to buy cartons of cigarettes or candy boxes embossed with a golden silhouette of the mausoleum...
...what has become a long-distance race along parallel tracks, the Chinese enjoy a lengthy lead. Reformer Deng's brand of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" has scored the most dramatic successes in the countryside. The roads of Sichuan province, the rice bowl of China, teem with bicycles and mini-tractors hauling everything from geese and green beans to bricks and black vinyl sofas. In Guanghan county, one of the first two regions in the country to abolish the Mao-inspired communes and lease land back to farmers % under the family contract system, the per capita income of agricultural workers...
When students took to the streets late last year to press for greater democratization, the warning signal was not lost on China's leadership. Hu Yaobang, a onetime disciple of Deng's, was forced to step down as party leader in January, admitting to "political errors" for failing to contain the protests, and the party pursued a campaign against "bourgeois liberalism." Chinese officials worry about the growing number of cases of corruption, fraud, theft and prostitution that have come to light since the reforms began. The outside world cannot be blamed for all such symptoms of social malaise. Says...
...13th Party Congress, Deng Xiaoping remains the master of compromise between ideologues and pragmatists. -- A TIME correspondent travels through China and the Soviet Union, comparing the substance and pace of reforms. -- Vacillating negotiators threaten the Central American peace process. -- The Soviets give the green light to more Jewish emigration...