Word: ideologists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nine members of the twelve-member council were forced to give accounts of themselves, and the assembly was not about to let them get away with long-winded, cliche-laden speeches. Where past Kremlin meetings greeted boiler-plate presentations with perfunctory outbursts of applause, this one constantly interrupted party ideologist Vadim Medvedev's lackluster presentation with insolent rhythmic clapping. When chief economist Leonid Abalkin warned delegates that the socialist idea had begun to lose its popular appeal and the only way to save it was to switch to a market economy, he was greeted with derision. The warmest ovation...