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...country is, among other things, an idea, often dressed up as an ism. The U.S.S.R., a hodgepodge of would-be nation states, was based on an outmoded idea, imperialism, and a modern one, totalitarianism. There was in the minds of those old men in the Kremlin the conceit, personified and perfected by Stalin, that fear makes the world go round; fear can make the worker work, the % farmer farm, the writer write and, of course, the Latvian, the Armenian, the Uzbek and the Ukrainian all take orders from Moscow...
...TIME group arrived at the Kremlin's old Council of Ministers building just as the sun was setting at 3 p.m. The white-blue-and-red Russian flag was flying over the building next door, a colorful reminder of how Russian President Boris Yeltsin's political power is impinging on Gorbachev's, including the takeover of several properties...
That announcement, along with the formation of a new, inelegantly named Commonwealth of Independent States, came as a stunning surprise but hardly a shock. The power had long been leaching out of the central authority in the Kremlin, and it was the leaders of the key republics that everyone looked to for salvation. The fear was that they would prove too determinedly nationalistic to come together in any kind of practical alliance. Yet Yeltsin and company came up with a proposal that all the independent republics could embrace -- if they wanted...
Mikhail Gorbachev used his interview with TIME to reject speculation that he is on the verge of resigning. On two hours' notice last Friday afternoon, the Soviet leader called Moscow bureau chief John Kohan and editor-at-large Strobe Talbott to his Kremlin office for an 80-minute interview. Also present were historian Michael Beschloss, who is co-writing a book with Talbott on the Bush-Gorbachev relationship, and TIME's Felix Rosenthal. "He exuded a sense of complete control," says Kohan, "in what is clearly the most difficult crisis of his political career...
...that possession of nukes confers. Ukraine and some other republics fear they will be unable to resist Russian domination if they turn over responsibility for any of their nuclear arsenal to Yeltsin's government. The danger would become greater still if military or right-wing coups overthrew the present Kremlin and republic leaders, as could happen if winter food and fuel shortages touch off street riots. Talk of just such a coup is rampant these days in Moscow...