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Alexander Yakovlev, Politburo member and Gorbachev supporter...
...first signal that Mikhail Gorbachev's three-day ordeal was over came shortly before 9:30 p.m. last Wednesday, when the television lights in the auditorium of the Foreign Ministry suddenly flashed on. For three hours the Moscow press corps had been waiting impatiently for a delegation of party officials, led by Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev and Vice President Anatoli Lukyanov, to bring news of the final hours of the plenum of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. The event had been billed as a make-or-break meeting for the Soviet leader and his unprecedented program...
...balding and bespectacled Yakovlev looked like a schoolboy who had just received straight A's. After praising the plenum as a "major step . . . away from an authoritarian-bureaucr atic model of socialism toward a democratic society that has opted for socialism," Yakovlev was asked how the meeting had affected Gorbachev's position. A smile, then the reply: "Very, very positively...
Very, very true. It is easy in these days of sweeping change in the communist world to grow jaded about events, to use words like "historic" and "stunning" so often that the superlatives lose their meaning and all the headlines merge into a gray blur. But what Gorbachev accomplished last week truly is historic. Though there is still much debate about how the reforms will play out, February 1990 may go down in Soviet history as a month equal in significance to February 1917, when the 300-year-old Romanov dynasty ended with the abdication of Czar Nicholas...
...Committee approved a draft platform that will in effect end the Communist Party's seven-decade-long monopoly on political and economic life. Furthermore, the Central Committee proposed an overhaul of the party's ruling Politburo and the creation of a presidential system of government, putting extensive authority into Gorbachev's hands and granting him, at least on paper, more power than any other leader in Soviet history. Not bad for a party man who only two weeks ago was rumored to be resigning...