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...rock-candy mountain. There's a story on every street corner." Last month she and Kohan scoured the country to report TIME's special issue on the "new" Soviet Union. Shevardnadze called it a "fitting title." The 3,000 copies of the magazine available in Moscow and Leningrad sold out in a couple of days...
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, Kennan is imprisoned by the Nazis. Released, he goes on to serve in Portugal, London and then, as the war winds down, the Soviet Union. In the early days, the writer regards the country less as a diplomat than as a romantic novelist manque. Leningrad is "one of the most poignant communities of the world . . . I know that in this city, where I have never lived, there had nevertheless been deposited by some strange quirk of fate -- a previous life, perhaps? -- a portion of my own capacity to feel and to love...
Gorbachev's feisty tone was matched by a barrage of frank criticism from the floor, which was later printed in full in the Soviet press. Yuri Solovyov, the Leningrad regional party boss who had lost his uncontested election race for the new legislature, charged that Kremlin initiatives like the antialcoholism campaign and the program to foster cooperative businesses had been carried out with "inconsistency, haste and insufficient thought." Of perestroika, Solovyov said, the "minuses still significantly exceed the pluses." Moscow Mayor Valeri Saikin, another election loser, questioned whether democracy had not come to mean "everything is permitted...
...giant factory in the heart of Leningrad looks more like a Rust Belt relic than a showplace of new industrial ideas. The Elektrosila power-equipment plant is an aging labyrinth of concrete buildings and connecting tunnels. Nearly half its creaky machine tools and other equipment was built in the 1960s. Yet this factory is the Soviet Union's largest producer of turbine generators for hydroelectric plants and nuclear power stations. Moreover, Elektrosila stands at the forefront of Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign to rejuvenate Soviet industry by freeing factories from the total, stifling control of government bureaucracies...
Such worries have not slowed the managers at the Elektrosila plant. They have teamed up with ten other factories and six research centers in Leningrad to form a consortium to explore new manufacturing methods. They plan to sell their equipment in package deals so that customers can sign up for an entire power plant with a single stroke of the pen. Elektrosila hopes for a substantial boost in exports to raise the foreign currency the plant needs to buy up-to-date Western machinery. At the moment the factory has only 7 million rubles ($11.2 million) in hard currency...