Word: perestroikas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exhorted citizens and party officials to make better use of their democratic rights. Speaking to a group of coal miners in Donetsk, the Soviet leader warned that his reform program needed the Ukraine's support. Said he: "If every republic doesn't make its contribution, then of course perestroika will slip into neutral...
...seven times the average Soviet wage. (George Bush, at $200,000, makes ten times the average annual American income.) And don't forget the perks: a limousine, a Moscow apartment, a dacha, hand-delivered groceries. Korotich also disclosed that Gorbachev donated $600,000 in foreign royalties from his book Perestroika, to the Communist Party. Are you listening, Jim Wright...
...political tremors of perestroika were not trouble enough for Mikhail Gorbachev, nature's rumblings are proving even more serious. For the second time in two months, a deadly earthquake hit the Soviet Union. As reconstruction efforts were getting under way in Armenia, where a massive tremor killed some 25,000 people, a second earthquake struck, this time 1,200 miles to the east in the Soviet republic of Tadzhikistan...
Whether genuine or idle, the chatter made plain that Gorbachev's power is neither monolithic nor unfettered. At the heart of his woes is the apparent failure of his perestroika campaign to jump-start the Soviet economy. A report put out by the Council of Ministers last week showed that, while the Soviet economy grew by 4.4% last year, farms and factories failed to produce enough quality goods to satisfy consumer demand. With wages now growing faster than productivity, inflation threatens. Other figures indicated that exports fell by 2% in 1988, while imports (much of it food) rose...
...many of them not long ago were confidently describing Gorbachev as the man who would lead the Soviet Union into the 21st century. Still, the analysts agree on at least one point: no credible contender has yet emerged to fill Gorbachev's shoes. Even most Soviets concede that perestroika, bitter as it may be, is the last hope for economic recovery...