Word: leningraders
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...which the Kremlin tightly controlled every aspect of life is dead; the Other Superpower that overshadowed the 20th century -- and the American imagination as long as most of us have lived -- is no more. "The former Union has ceased to exist, and there is no return to it," says Leningrad Mayor Anatoli Sobchak, a prime mover in attempts to devise some arrangement to replace...
Heading the team in Moscow was bureau chief John Kohan, who studied Russian in the U.S. and Leningrad, and has reported and written stories on the Soviet Union since 1975. On hand too were correspondent James Carney and reporter Ann Simmons, both Russian speakers. During the unsettling days and nights after the announcement of the coup, invaluable assistance came from the bureau staff -- secretary Emma Petrova, driver Boris Tyunin and office researcher Yuri Zarakhovich, the first Soviet citizen to file for TIME as a formally accredited reporter...
Coal miners in Siberia and the far north left their pits. Resolutions condemning the Emergency Committee were passed in communities from Sakhalin Island in the far east to Petrozavodsk, near the border with Finland. In Leningrad tens of thousands gathered in front of the Winter Palace, which Lenin's forces had stormed to begin the Bolshevik Revolution...
...will be the insistent question of Gorbachev's lack of democratic legitimacy. The constitutionality of his office was upheld, but not his personal claim to it. Yeltsin emerged as a formidable political force because he was elected by popular vote. The same was true of Mayor Anatoli Sobchak of Leningrad and others who rallied the hundreds of thousands to oppose the coup. Gorbachev is not even a popularly elected member of parliament, and its communist members are largely responsible for making him President...
Carney, who majored in Russian and East European studies at Yale and speaks fluent Russian, worked as a summer intern at TIME in 1986. He spent part of the following year studying in Leningrad, where he got a close-up look at the first wave of Mikhail Gorbachev's attempts at reform. Starting in 1988 as TIME's Miami bureau chief, Carney covered Gorbachev's trip to Cuba and the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989. All the while he yearned to return to the Soviet Union. Events there seemed to be moving so fast, he recalls, "I used...