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...This time Schecter, now an author and a founding editor of a new joint U.S.-weekly newspaper, did the translating and editing, in collaboration with Vyacheslav Luchkov, a scholar and expert on Soviet psychology. The title, Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes, underscores the connection between Khrushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev. Says Talbott: "As though anticipating what Gorbachev tried to do, Khrushchev even uses the word perestroika in his own appeal for sweeping reconstruction of the Soviet political and economic system...
Last year -- with the Soviet Union officially willing as never before to hear the often ugly truth about its past, with Mikhail Gorbachev emulating some of Khrushchev's reforms and with the "special pensioner" of Petrovo- Dalneye undergoing a posthumous rehabilitation -- TIME acquired the missing tapes. It was no wonder they had been kept secret: in them, Khrushchev sheds startling new light on Stalin's complicity in the murder that launched the savage purges of the 1930s; on a secret overture to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime during World War II; and on Fidel Castro's apocalyptic recklessness during...
...classic Gorbachev performance. After allowing the national parliament to wrangle all week long over the merits of various plans to renovate the economy, the Soviet President decided he had heard enough debate from the toilworn legislators. Late on Friday afternoon Deputy Yuri Golik, a close Gorbachev ally, proposed, without prior discussion, a resolution that would give the President almost total power to overhaul the enfeebled economy by decree...
After several liberals rose to condemn the plan as dictatorial, Gorbachev took to the podium. Banging the lectern with his palm, his face scarlet with determination, he expressed his exasperation with those who dawdled while the economy went up in flames. "We're in a very dangerous situation," he said. "Let's not kid ourselves . . . I ask you for the authority to act." He finished to whoops of applause punctuated with shouts of "Let's do it!" There was no quorum in the hall, so no vote could be taken. But given the enthusiastic response to Gorbachev's oration...
...moment, Gorbachev's high-drama act has quieted complaints that the President himself is as guilty as anyone else of dithering amid the economic crisis. Though he says he favors the most radical plan before the parliament, a scheme that would demolish socialism and create a full-bodied market system within 500 days, Gorbachev insists on rejecting one of the proposal's fundamental provisions: the devolution of key economic powers to the 15 republics. Moreover, he suggested last week that the privatization of land, perhaps the most important aspect of the plan, be placed on a referendum for voters...