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Demokratiya, konstitutsiya, parlament and Prezident are all foreign additions to the Russian vocabulary. And although Russians can boast of ancient proto-democratic institutions like the village mir or the veche of Novgorod, where consensus decisions were reached at a kind of town meeting, centralized rule by an all-powerful executive--whether Czar or Communist Party General Secretary--has been the political norm throughout Russian history. The country simply has no democratic culture. It experimented briefly with limited parliamentary democracy before the 1917 revolution. The present era of quasi-democratization was inaugurated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989 with elections...
...that session, he and three other members of Solidarity's twelve-man presidium accepted a compromise version of the government's self-management bill. It would give workers' councils the right to choose managers at most enterprises; the state could veto nominees it found objectionable. Parlament passed the plan into law the day before the union delegates returned to Gdansk. A dangerous union-government showdown was thereby averted...
Turning to British nationalized health service, Dennis Howell, a Laborite Member of Parlament, debated several points with John Wood, former member of the research department of the Conservative Party, although both agreed on the principle of the program...
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