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...after reading, reflecting, rewriting and adding 100,000 words, Medvedev has turned Let History Judge into virtually a new book. Coincidentally, Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost has nudged the door ajar for its publication in the Soviet Union; abbreviated versions of four chapters were printed early this year in the magazine Znamya. Last month Medvedev came even closer to acceptance in his homeland when he was elected to both the new Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet, the nation's parliament...
Medvedev's assertions point straight to Gorbachev's fundamental problem: how to realize the "democratization" he has proclaimed within the totalitarian institutions of the one-party Soviet state. Unfortunately, it is not in the power of even so perspicacious a historian as Medvedev to resolve that fateful dilemma. Perhaps that is why he has become, at 63, a fledgling parliamentarian...
...since John F. Kennedy arrived to denounce the Berlin Wall in 1963 have West Germans lavished such adulation on a foreign visitor as they did last week on Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. But the messages left by the two travelers, their visits separated by 26 years of history, were nearly as disparate as the directions from which they arrived. Whereas Kennedy's aim was to spread a message of resolve at the very height of the cold war, the Soviet leader proclaimed a new era in which East and West could peacefully share their common continent...
Ealier in the week, Gorbachev had visited the scene of the explosion, acre after acre of which was scorched black by fire. "It seems once again that it is a matter of incompetence, irresponsibility, mismanagement," the grim and angry President told the Congress. "It was nothing less than a shameful outrage. There will be no progress in this country if we have such laxness." Gorbachev then exhorted his listeners to "learn hard lessons from what happened." Last week in the Soviet Union, there was no shortage of hard lessons...
...China Sea, people strain against the confines of the system, demanding a fair share in their own governance. -- Hard-liners take China's helm, but the old compact between the people and their leaders is shattered. -- Solidarity whips the Communist Party, causing a constitutional logjam. -- Wherever he turns, Gorbachev faces hard lessons and unhappy citizens...