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...Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Supreme Soviet is debating whether the country ought to get a new name once the proposed treaty of confederation among the 15 constituent republics of the U.S.S.R. is approved. Three suggestions: Union of Sovereign Socialist States (U.S.S.S.), put forth by none other than Mikhail Gorbachev; Union of Euro-Asian Republics, a coinage of the late Andrei Sakharov; and Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics, a nomination from the floor. That, of course, would retain both the word Soviet and the initials U.S.S.R. (or, in the Russian language and Cyrillic alphabet, C.C.C.P.). If none of them...
...theory is that Mikhail Gorbachev wants extra military muscle available in case food riots erupt. If true, that would constitute the most startling indication yet of the President's weakening authority; Gorbachev the reformer would be turning to the largely reform-resistant military to keep him in power...
...Warner Inc. This time Schecter, now an author and a founding editor of a new joint U.S.-weekly newspaper, did the translating and editing, in collaboration with Vyacheslav Luchkov, a scholar and expert on Soviet psychology. The title, Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes, underscores the connection between Khrushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev. Says Talbott: "As though anticipating what Gorbachev tried to do, Khrushchev even uses the word perestroika in his own appeal for sweeping reconstruction of the Soviet political and economic system...
Last year -- with the Soviet Union officially willing as never before to hear the often ugly truth about its past, with Mikhail Gorbachev emulating some of Khrushchev's reforms and with the "special pensioner" of Petrovo- Dalneye undergoing a posthumous rehabilitation -- TIME acquired the missing tapes. It was no wonder they had been kept secret: in them, Khrushchev sheds startling new light on Stalin's complicity in the murder that launched the savage purges of the 1930s; on a secret overture to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime during World War II; and on Fidel Castro's apocalyptic recklessness during...
Neither he nor Mikhail Suslov, the senior party ideologist, was at the meeting ((at which the Soviet leaders decided to crush the Hungarian revolution with tanks)). They were in Hungary, trying to deal with the situation that was developing there. Mikoyan flew home only after we'd made our decision. His apartment and mine were on the same floor. When I told him about our decision, he objected strenuously that armed intervention was not right and that it would undermine the reputation of our government and party...