Word: perestroikas
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...courses on Marxist-Leninist dogma, but they have never stopped believing that history moves in a circle, not a straight line. Ask a wrinkled babushka selling vodka on the street about Yeltsin's chances of success, and she will leapfrog back in memory over Mikhail Gorbachev's ill- fated perestroika to recall the doomed attempt by Nikita Khrushchev to break the stranglehold of the Stalinist past. An intellectual will delve even further into Russia's history, comparing Yeltsin's policies to the failed campaigns of reform-minded Czars like Peter the Great and Alexander...
...present reform trends continue, it is possible that Russia might eventually open its doors to the world so wide that it will lose a great deal of its mystery. An inevitable leveling process is bound to take place as Russians adjust to new political institutions and market mechanisms. The perestroika kids who have come of age during the reform era already act as if they live in a different world from their parents' -- and they probably do have more in common with their video-culture peers around the globe than with Russians of the older generation. Still, it is hard...
...SLOGAN HAS A FAMILIAR RING: THERE'S NOTHing wrong with communism that a little capitalism can't fix. Last time around, that approach was called perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev's futile attempt to rejuvenate the Soviet socialist system. Perestroika is alive and well and living in Beijing under an assumed name -- "socialist market economy...
With the coming of perestroika the band was allowed more exposure in the Ukraine. The group gained national attention at the Chervona Ruta Festival...
...plainly marked by the trauma of losing power, and she was willing to speak on the record. "Had I known all that I know now," she said, "I still think I would have decided to support him." Despite her pride in what she called "the tremendous breakthrough" of perestroika, she says the past seven years were full of "traumatic events" and that 1991 was "tragic." She cited "the 73 hours spent under arrest" in the hands of coup plotters last August, "the betrayal by people who had worked closely with my husband," the collapse of the economy, "the rupturing...