Word: mikhail
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...Moscow that citizens thronged the streets with banners that could be loosely translated THROW THE BUMS OUT! This time it was in the Kremlin that the bums themselves seemed to take heed and the custodians of absolute power began the process of giving it up. And this time Mikhail Sergeyevich, the Commissar Liberator, was not somewhere over the horizon, letting it all happen. He was on the podium, making it happen...
What about Gorbachev's own party card and what it means to him? For some time there has been reason to wonder whether, in the 3 o'clock in the morning of his soul, Mikhail Sergeyevich really is a Communist, or at least, in the Soviet sense, a "good" Communist. Certainly many in his audience at the Kremlin were worrying about that last week. Glasnost is an unabashedly antimonopolistic, antitotalitarian, therefore anti-Communist notion. Calling for a "revolution of the mind" before his meeting with the Pope in December, Gorbachev said, "We no longer think that we are the best...
Surveys have become a staple of stories examining presidential popularity (George Bush, so far, is doing better than Ronald Reagan), foreign policy (Americans are upbeat on Mikhail Gorbachev but remain down on communism) and race (blacks are less optimistic than whites but believe more strongly in education). Editors have even employed polls to study journalism itself. In the mid-1980s, with newspaper readership declining relative to population growth, researchers diagnosed widespread public skepticism about journalists' methods and motives. Confounded by inconsistencies in those surveys, Times Mirror, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and several other papers, hired...
...information. Next she tried a back channel, asking a Soviet magazine editor for the number to call. Kohan then got the answer he needed (249 members) from the Central Committee's Department for Party Building and Cadre Work. Reflecting on that experience, says Kohan, "I have enormous sympathy for Mikhail Gorbachev and the struggles he faces every day with the party bureaucracy...
...first signal that Mikhail Gorbachev's three-day ordeal was over came shortly before 9:30 p.m. last Wednesday, when the television lights in the auditorium of the Foreign Ministry suddenly flashed on. For three hours the Moscow press corps had been waiting impatiently for a delegation of party officials, led by Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev and Vice President Anatoli Lukyanov, to bring news of the final hours of the plenum of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. The event had been billed as a make-or-break meeting for the Soviet leader and his unprecedented program...