Word: kremlin
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Lenin's white statue seemed to gaze down expectantly on Mikhail Gorbachev as the Soviet leader walked to the podium of the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses, - opened a thick folder and began his 2-hr. 41-min. speech. Between Lenin and Gorbachev lay seven decades of Soviet history, much of it officially ignored or obfuscated -- and nearly all of it haunted by the ghost of Joseph Stalin. But Gorbachev had insisted there should be no "blank pages" in his country's past. Now, in an address marking the 70th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, he had an ideal...
Gorbachev credited Bukharin, who supported Lenin's free market-oriented New Economic Policy and opposed forced collectivization, with helping to frustrate Trotsky's ambitions. Yet Gorbachev felt compelled to cite Lenin's reservations about Bukharin's ideological purity. On that point, as in his unabashed defense of the Kremlin's infamous 1939 pact with Hitler, Gorbachev showed there are limits on how far even he would stray from official versions of Soviet history...
When schism split the East bloc in 1960, Moscow and Beijing became clinched in an acrimonious contest for ideological supremacy. The Kremlin no doubt felt relief at the end of the Maoist era. Nonetheless, the mixture of central planning and market economics that developed in China starting in 1978 initially prompted criticism that Beijing was heading down the capitalist road. Since Gorbachev launched his own brand of Communist reconstruction early last year, mutual suspicion has given way to cautious interest and growing - cooperation. Last year China exported $1.2 billion worth of goods to the Soviet Union, compared with only...
...speech to the June plenum of the Central Committee, he praised such contract teams, citing a family in the Brest region of Belorussia that managed to increase milk yields per cow from 2,917 kilograms to 5,580 kilograms in only two years. But so far the Kremlin cannot point to well-stocked supermarket shelves as a positive result of perestroika policies...
...time when the Chinese have paused to catch their breath, the Soviets have spurted ahead in the more nebulous area of reform termed glasnost. Chinese Kremlin watchers were stunned when Gorbachev rebuked at least 16 ministers and party officials by name in his June speech to the Central Committee plenum. And nothing in China can quite compare with Soviet TV shows like Good Evening, Moscow and Dialogue, which mix news of perestroika with round-table discussions. A recent broadcast pitted squirming agricultural officials against incensed consumers, who waved bags of tasteless, undersized green apples at the camera and demanded...