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Vladimir Ivanov, deputy director of a think-tank that advises Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, told a Coolidge Hall audience of about 30 that a new world order could not be established until diplomatic tensions in the North Pacific are resolved. America, he said, can play an influential role in such a process...
...devoted Communists have no room for religion, because Mikhail Gorbachev and the rest of his party are in desperate need of a miracle. Nothing short of Saint Nicholas on his sleigh could possibly deliver a cure for the slew of ailments afflicting their country...
...this were the extent of Mikhail Gorbachev's problems, he'd be a man in deep trouble. But they are only the surface...
...center of The New Russians is the story of one Russian in particular, Mikhail Gorbachev. Smith deftly presents a biography of Gorbachev that puts him into the context of national malaise: clever enough to advance through the mediocrities of the party, honest enough to recognize the need for change. He believes Gorbachev has already achieved greatness by creating a civil society in a country where political passivity and dictatorship had always been the norm. Informal organizations at the grass roots and the emerging institutions of parliament, independent courts and a free press will eventually lead to a multiparty system...
With the Soviet Union facing its most miserable winter since the end of World War II, Mikhail Gorbachev told his countrymen last week that he and the Communist leadership were "guilty before the working class" for his nation's food shortages. But what the Soviet people need these days are calories, not confessions...