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Western pursuits are copied just as eagerly. Soviet youths who have come to love pizza and disco music are now smitten with skateboarding and jogging. Among the well educated in Moscow and Leningrad, Jane Fonda is a cult figure, but not for her politics. Her popularity stems from movies and, even more surprising, from bootlegged tapes of her exercise routines...
...poor." Government and party also inspire less admiration when youths realize how much business is done through bribery and favoritism. The young are, above all, losing touch with the forces that drove their ancestors to embrace Communism. "Ours is a lost generation," says Larisa, 25, an artist in Leningrad. "For us there are no dreams, no illusions, only a hard existence from...
...Grigori Romanov, 61, is thought by some Western observers to be the odds-on favorite to succeed Andropov. A shipbuilding designer from the region of Novgorod, northwest of Moscow, he earned a degree through correspondence courses and night school. Romanov eventually became leader of the Leningrad party organization and was promoted to full membership in the Politburo when he was only 53. In June 1983 he was brought to Moscow to assume a post on the Secretariat, strengthening his position as a contender. Looking dapper and self-assured with every strand of his silver hair in place, Romanov delivered...
Romanov has the unflattering reputation of being abrasive and arrogant. Sovi ets quip that the imperial manner comes with his surname, the same as that of the Russian royal family, which was deposed in 1917. According to a widely told anecdote, Romanov ordered Leningrad's Hermitage museum to open its china clos ets so that guests at his daughter's wedding reception could eat in grand style. Several priceless items from Catherine the Great's dinner service were broken during the revelry. One U.S. diplomat who met with Romanov was taken aback when he rudely interrupted his interpreter to correct...
...strongest contenders are considered to be Mikhail S. Gorbachev, 52. Ronstantin I. Chemenko, an Andropov adversary who has been named to head the temporary caretaker government. The other two names widely mentioned are Mikhail Gorbachev, the youngest Politburo member at 52 years old, and Grigory Romanov, the hard line Leningrad Communist Party chief...