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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leningrad the top five party leaders were all wiped out. Also fallen: about a third of the 129 regional party leaders, Moscow's mayor, Lithuania's top leadership, the KGB boss in Estonia, the admiral of the Pacific fleet and the general of Soviet forces in East Germany, the party boss in Kiev, and Yevgeni Brakov, the manager of Moscow's ZIL limousine factory, who had the thankless task of taking on Yeltsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Union: Winners and Losers | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...General Manager: Barbara M. Mrkonic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead Vol. 133 No. 15 APRIL 10, 1989 | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...than his 62 years, has turned down repeated offers of ministry jobs in Moscow. "I'm in love with what I'm doing now. Besides, I do more good here. So far, I have had no bad flukes, so I sleep pretty well. But there are a lot of general managers in the Soviet Union who don't sleep well at all these days." As any capitalist would tell them, a little restlessness is good for business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up The Power | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

There are signs that Gorbachev's revolution has in fact engendered "new thinking" within the Communist Party. When party members are asked the touchy question of whether the Soviet Union might someday have a multiparty system, an impressive 36% express readiness to entertain the notion. Among the general public, 40% of the men thought the Communist Party would eventually have competition, while women were more conservative, with only 27% taking that view. Another surprise: even after decades of official atheism, half of all party members say religious believers can also be members of the Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Union: What the Comrades Say | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...agree, things have changed. I tell my questioner that they've also published dissident writers such as Vladimir Voinovich and Georgi Vladimov, they've begun little by little to publish me, and they're even allowing some limited criticism of the General Secretary. If things go any further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Would I Move Back? | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

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