Word: perestroika
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...extraordinary in every sense of the word. Day after sweltering day in an early summer heat wave, nearly 5,000 delegates met in the Kremlin's vast Palace of Congresses to debate their country's political future, and specifically the fate of Gorbachev's three-year-old program of perestroika (restructuring). A combination political convention, town meeting, classroom lecture and gripe session, the gathering turned into an astonishing exercise in Gorbachev's second-favorite buzz word, glasnost (openness). More than 70 delegates spoke their minds by week's end, and many others wanted to do so. But Gorbachev finally...
Earlier, Melnikov had said: "Those who in the past actively promoted the policy of stagnation may not serve and work on the central party and government bodies now, at the time of perestroika. They should answer for everything and do so personally...
...third day of the conference, the party's first in 47 years, delegates openly disagreed on the concrete results of Gorbachev's drive for perestroika, or economic and social reconstruction, launched after he took power in March...
Notwithstanding his reformist image, Gorbachev in the end may find he prefers the Kluyevs of conventional party practice over more fiery pro- perestroika candidates. At a meeting attended by Gorbachev to choose Moscow's delegation two weeks ago, Ivanov was confirmed as a delegate despite the Ogonyok attack, while the passionate playwright Gelman was not. There and elsewhere Gorbachev has shown a well-tuned instinct for the safe middle ground. When he dumped Yeltsin, the pro-perestroika Moscow party boss, from the Politburo earlier this year, Gorbachev was protecting one flank. When he later chastised Yegor Ligachev, a Politburo member...
Although the turmoil is neither anti-Soviet nor anti-Communist, it could threaten Gorbachev's position if it remains unresolved. "What is happening around Nagorno-Karabakh is a blow to perestroika, possibly the most serious blow in recent times," warned the youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. "This is a challenge to the ideals of glasnost, a chance for conservatives to strengthen their point of view...