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...only way for a Moscow-based journalist to get a guaranteed summer break, in the early '90s, was to go on vacation when Mikhail Gorbachev did. Leave him alone for 24 hours, someone joked, and he would dissolve another part of the Evil Empire. This theory blew up in our faces in August 1991, when the Soviet leadership's old guard made a last, despairing attempt to turn back time by seizing power in the name of the State Committee on the State of Emergency. That news found me in Vermont, on vacation. After a night spent in a broom...
...putsch had been a total surprise, although it should not have been. By 1990, Gorbachev's perestroika was more uncomfortable balancing act than dynamic reform program. He often seemed overwhelmed at the complexity of the task he had taken on. Reform had been premised on the assumption that dismantling the repressive apparatus of the state, admitting to the horrors of the past and trying to rectify them would strengthen the legitimacy of Gorbachev and his brand of modernized socialism. It did the opposite. The masses turned against the system and Gorbachev himself, whom they labeled a "boltun," a wind...
...Russia: C Bush's enthusiasm for missile defense may be prompting him to elevate Russia beyond its strategic significance. The President treated his first encounter with Putin as a kind of reprise of the first Reagan-Gorbachev summit, telling Americans he had looked into the Russian leader's eyes and "got a pretty good idea of his soul." The comment prompted titters across Europe, not least because Putin came through the ranks of the KGB, an organization that doesn't exactly reward transparency. Still, Putin has been pleasantly surprised by the new administration's attentions, and he's quite happy...
...hungry is Bush? In late April, when former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who had suggested to the President's father that Dubya's foreign policy was off course, stopped at the White House to meet with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, the President dropped by for two minutes--and stayed for 20, pumping Gorby for advice. Bush has also heard from another old hand, the one whom Americans hope he consults but whom White House image-mongers are most sensitive about...
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