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Leonid Kravchuk, the chairman of the parliament, leads a bloc of Communists who have broken with hard-liners in the party to form a coalition with moderates in the democratic opposition. He is negotiating with Moscow for a "renewed union" more like a common market than the federation Mikhail Gorbachev advocates. Kravchuk may quit the party to run in the republic's first presidential election this fall...
Yeltsin has promised to resurrect private farming on a grand scale, making land available to every peasant who wants to till his own fields rather than toil for a collective or state farm. Russia already has a private-property law on the books, though Gorbachev gags at endorsing one for the whole Soviet Union. Yeltsin promises to strengthen it and to bring about the "rebirth of entrepreneurship," promoting the formation and expansion of privately owned companies in "any business." Further, he proposes departizatsiya, or departification, meaning that the ubiquitous Communist Party committees should have nothing to do with running factories...
Though on paper Yeltsin now has considerably more legal powers than he did as chairman of the Russian parliament, it is an open question whether he will be able to deploy them. He is heavily dependent on the negotiations between Gorbachev's central government and nine of the 15 Soviet republics for a new treaty replacing the one that formed the Soviet Union in 1922. In those talks, says Georgi Shakhnazarov, an adviser to Gorbachev, "we are encountering the same problems the Americans faced 200 years ago" -- and occasionally seeking guidance from the same sources. At one point, addressing representatives...
What is needed is to strike a balance between dealing more with Yeltsin and other republic leaders on economic affairs while continuing to negotiate with Gorbachev on foreign policy. That is a tricky job, and there is no assurance the West will get it right, but Yeltsin has simply put on too much political weight to be ignored. In March he could not get Secretary of State James Baker, who was visiting Moscow, to come to his office for a private meeting; Baker did not want to give Gorbachev's rival special treatment. Now the doors of the White House...
...deal with new leaders without alienating Gorbachev...