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...list of worries, but Mikhail Gorbachev seems to have fallen from grace with many Western experts on the Soviet Union. Even among some who applauded him in the past, there is not only a deepening pessimism about the future of reform but also a new, almost ad hominem sourness about the chief reformer himself...
...Russian Patriotic Movement peddles pictures of Czar Nicholas II and newspapers promoting the monarchy as the "only guarantee for liquidating the vices of the communist years of evil." Other groups include the pro-communist United Front of Workers. What unites the monarchists and the neo-Stalinists is opposition to Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. As literary critic Vladimir Bondarenko puts it, "Russia does not need perestroika. Russia needs a revival...
...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...
...reached out to rebel mujahedin factions with moderate proposals that offer a degree of self-rule, even though important insurgent leaders so far are not buying. Be that as it may, a Soviet diplomat in New Delhi says Najibullah has shown himself to be in step with President Mikhail Gorbachev's new thinking...
Life on the Politburo is not a lot of fun these days. If Mikhail Gorbachev isn't changing the job descriptions of the Soviet leaders, the parliament is poking its nose into party business. Now the Supreme Soviet's Commission on Privileges is taking an ax to some of the things that made party life worth living, specifically the comfortable dachas, or country houses, enjoyed by the elite...