Word: perestroikas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk of "glasnost" and "perestroika," Gorbachev maintains the iron hand of authoritarian government. The communist regime still does not grant its own citizens freedom of speech, association or the press. Thousands of Soviet citizens continue to fill Russia's jails, mental hospitals and slave labor camps because of their political and religious beliefs...
...GORBACHEV has, however, played the good salesman, preaching the virtues of peace, disarmament and the Soviet way. He has even written a book, published by Harper and Row, to let Westerners in on his plans of perestroika...
...mention Yeltsin by name but criticized officials whose management decisions "bring society to a fever" and "unnerve people" -- charges that were leveled by many against the abrasive Moscow party chief during the meeting that preceded his downfall. Gorbachev also threatened to "part company" with those who resist his perestroika (restructuring) program, a not so subtle threat to punish opponents of his policies in the party...
...former party leader in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, Yeltsin was brought to Moscow by Gorbachev in 1985 and quickly established himself as a supersalesman of perestroika (restructuring), Gorbachev's plan to modernize the Soviet economy. To the delight of ordinary Muscovites, he became a one-man consumer-protection agency, stopping off in stores to complain about poor- quality merchandise, calling Moscow's famed subway unsafe and criticizing state contractors for falling behind in constructing new housing. But his blunt language and grandstanding earned him enemies. Explains Marshall Goldman, associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "People came...
Yeltsin grew a little too outspoken at a meeting of the policymaking Central Committee in late October. Interrupting the agenda, the Moscow party chief delivered a harangue accusing senior leaders of obstructing his efforts to bring about perestroika. Exactly what he said remains unclear. Gorbachev, in his attack on Yeltsin last week, said that Yeltsin had "in fact sought to call into question the Communist Party's work on restructuring and the character of changes and went as far as to say that restructuring was giving nothing to the people." Gorbachev implied that Yeltsin brought up matters relating...