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HAVANA--Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev arrived yesterday in Cuba for talks with President Fidel Castro, who has criticized the Soviet leader's new pragmatic brand of communism...
Even 60 years later, Soviet farmers have not forgiven Joseph Stalin for taking away their land. Now Mikhail Gorbachev is offering, more or less, to give it back. Under a new policy unveiled by the Soviet President last week at a plenum of the Communist Party's Central Committee, private farmers will be able to lease land for 50 years and beyond and even pass their tenancy on to their children. It will, Gorbachev declared, make the Soviet farmer "the master on the land...
...since Stalin slammed down the Iron Curtain four decades ago has Europe witnessed such ferment east of the Elbe as that unleashed by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign to reshape socialist politics and economics. In the past, when opposition escalated, the Kremlin dispatched tanks and troops to crush dissent. But since coming to power in 1985, Gorbachev himself has been the chief dissident, leading the assault on the status quo. Acknowledging that there is no "binding model" for socialism, he has encouraged pluri- Communism in Eastern Europe...
Nikandrov, appearing before about 150 people in Longfellow Hall, referred frequently to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's economic and political "restructuring" proposals, or perestroika...
...high profile. Groused one Muscovite: "What is the meaning of Raisa this, Raisa that? Am I supposed to live like she does?" At a televised celebration at the Bolshoi Theater after her speech, it was clear that she has not totally broken the traditional mold of Soviet leaders' spouses. Mikhail Gorbachev sat on the dais, while Raisa watched from the audience...