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...demonstrations in Red Square. Some banners demanded faster and bolder progress toward a free market (A NEW SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ORDER NOW!), while others warned that resistance is already building to the hardships reform will entail, especially inflation and unemployment (FOOD IS NOT A LUXURY, PROTECT OUR JOBS!). Mikhail Gorbachev, who must reconcile that contradiction in the months ahead, left the reviewing stand atop Lenin's tomb, as jeers rose from the crowd below...
...surprisingly, The Peace of Brest-Litovsk was suppressed for more than two decades. When it finally debuted in 1987, however, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev attended the premiere; afterward he endorsed the play and embraced its leading actor, his friend Mikhail Ulyanov. One version has Gorbachev saying, "That is me. That is me." Playwright Mikhail Shatrov, 58, says that the actual words were more restrained but that Gorbachev openly drew parallels between Lenin's reluctant peace with imperial Germany and his own reform and retrenchment. Thus the staging of Shatrov's text became a political as well as an artistic event...
...that TIME, which has periodically convened groups of experts to diagnose the U.S. and European economies, could offer some friendly advice. In the spirit of glasnost, we called in a specialist to collaborate with TIME's Washington- based national-economics correspondent Richard Hornik in composing the Rx memo to Mikhail that appears in this week's business section...
...image was familiar: Mikhail Gorbachev on another barnstorming journey, surrounded by a sea of citizens. "The point of this trip was to come and see if what we're hearing about your concerns is true," he told workers at the Uralmash plant in Sverdlovsk, in the Soviet Union's industrial heartland. That concern was familiar too: the state of a faltering economy close to collapse and increasingly incapable of delivering goods and services to 287 million citizens...
Landsbergis said he would "carefully study" the letter, but he could hardly fail to read it as support for President Mikhail Gorbachev's demands that the Baltic republic consent to an orderly secession by Moscow's rules. Landsbergis had already been stung by George Bush's decision not to impose economic sanctions on the Soviet Union -- a decision the Lithuanian leader likened to the appeasement of Hitler at the 1938 Munich conference. The comparison was farfetched, since Bush was counseling Lithuania to take a less confrontational course toward independence, not to surrender to a predatory totalitarian...