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...most extreme, the currently fashionable grumpiness about Gorbachev implies a nostalgia for at least some aspects of the bad old days. Yes, Leonid Brezhnev presided over an era of stagnation, but perhaps that was preferable to the nervous breakdown that the U.S.S.R. seems to be experiencing now. Moreover, when Brezhnev was on the Lenin mausoleum, waving like a rusty windup toy at the troops parading by, there was a predictability to Soviet behavior and a stability in international life that in retrospect are beginning to look good to some...
Nelan's postings in Washington, Hong Kong, Bonn, Moscow and Johannesburg prepared him well for his current position as a senior writer. In crafting the main story in this week's special section on the Soviet Empire, Nelan drew from his experiences in Moscow from 1978 to 1981. Leonid Brezhnev was in charge, and the reforms that Mikhail Gorbachev later wrought were unimaginable then. "I understand the stage on which the recent changes are occurring," says Nelan, "but often I am completely amazed by the script...
...first the couple were banned from traveling abroad and from performing in large cities. But then Senator Edward Kennedy asked Leonid Brezhnev to let them go to the U.S., and they soon got passports. "For me, at 47, life ended," Rostropovich says. "I was born anew on May 26, 1974. There was no continuity. I was truly like a newborn. I couldn't speak the language of the place I was in. I had no place to live. I had no real friends...
...quickly as far as the Kremlin was concerned. Polish crowds demonstrated to demand a change of leadership. The Hungarians even overthrew their government and enjoyed one heady week of independence. Then Khrushchev sent in Soviet tanks to restore the old order. When he was forced out in 1964, Leonid Brezhnev seemed even more determined to maintain that old order forever, sending more tanks to suppress Czech independence in 1968 and warning that he would do so again whenever necessary. He too proclaimed a new constitution in 1977, declaring more strongly than ever that the Communist Party was "the leading...
...points, and this is what has been said by many speakers, need major changes and reinforcement, especially in the direction of stepping up decisive action," Leonid A. Bibin, a non-voting Central Committee member, said in a Soviet TV interview yesterday...