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...close to the eighth birthday of the outlawed Solidarity trade union. The stoppages crippled ten coal mines in Silesia and paralyzed dock facilities in the Baltic seaport of Szczecin. Although the strikes were not organized by Solidarity leaders, Lech Walesa, head of the union, warned that workers at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk would join the disruptions early this week. The strikers' demands included legalization of Solidarity, as well as higher wages and better working conditions...
...leading Soviet actor, Mikhail Ulyanov (who often plays his eponym, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin), cited a now famous letter, printed earlier this year in the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya, from a Leningrad schoolteacher that criticized glasnost. Ulyanov warned that all too many intellectuals "snapped to attention and waited for the next orders" as a result of its publication, convinced that the period of openness was about to end. Others, unhappy with glasnost, criticized the Soviet press for carrying the campaign too far with its newfound appetite for muckraking. Calling those who produce such fare "princes of extremism," conservative Novelist Yuri Bondarev...
Like many of Gorbachev's ideas, the notion of convening a special conference is traceable to the founder of Russian Communism, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. In the early days of Soviet power, such extraordinary sessions, held between regular quinquennial party congresses, were convened to deal with emergencies, major and minor. The practice fell into disuse under Joseph Stalin's dictatorship, although it was Stalin who called the last one, in 1941, to rally the party and the country against the German invasion. Gorbachev has revived the practice in hopes that it will give impetus to his reforms and provide him with...
...convinced that the conference will decide not only the future of perestroika but also the very course of world Communism. "If conservative forces manage to cut short our revolutionary perestroika and throw us backward, it would mean the moral death and destruction of our party, the party of Lenin," wrote Playwright Alexander Gelman, a Gorbachev supporter. If the conference fails, Gelman warned, "society would be led down the ((democratic)) path not by our party but by some other political force, which would emerge from the people in the whirlwind of crisis...
...archconservative Anatoli Ivanov, editor of the youth journal Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard). Seasoned Communist politicians have found themselves forced to campaign for delegate seats, most for the first time in their careers. "It was exhausting," said Vladimir Kluyev, who won a place on the delegation from Moscow's Lenin District. "A difficult process...