Word: perestroikas
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...president Alexander Rutskoi. Sergeyev contends that his Communist Initiative movement alone counts at least 3.5 million sympathizers. Other alternatives are emerging on the fringes of the party. With the tacit approval of Gorbachev, former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze set up a Democratic Reform Movement earlier this month to further perestroika. Last week Alexander Yakovlev, a key architect of Gorbachev's changes, quit the government, presumably to devote his energies to the fledgling movement. Meanwhile, 12 prominent hard-liners called for the creation of a "popular patriotic movement" of their own for "the salvation of the motherland...
...change put together a Democratic Reform Movement, intended to become a unified and permanent opposition to the Communist Party, or at least its hard-line faction. Organizers include former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze; Alexander Yakovlev, an adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev who is sometimes called the "architect of perestroika"; and Mayors Gavril Popov of Moscow and Anatoli Sobchak of Leningrad...
...dramatic upheavals that have reshaped Soviet society since then have also transformed cultural life. Glasnost and perestroika have done wonders in some fields, but in the pampered world of the nation's artistic institutions, change and the onset of Western-style competition have caused severe difficulties. The Bolshoi, among others, has seen its state subsidies go way down; at the same time, expenses have gone up, and the company's conservative and inefficient practices have been placed in a harsh new light. Moreover, many of the U.S.S.R.'s brightest young singers, now free to seek opportunities wherever they like, have...
Numbering more than 800 pages (including 62 pages of footnotes), The Crisis Years is a compelling piece of historical research that benefits from post- perestroika access to Soviet sources. Its attraction as a scholarly work, however, should not detract from its appeal to the casual reader, who can easily become immersed in this captivating description of how the U.S. and the Soviet Union almost blundered into World...
...sessions wind up on July 17. The U.S. and Britain, the host country this year, had been reluctant to invite Gorbachev because they did not want to raise his expectations for aid. As Gorbachev said in Oslo, he thinks he is "entitled to expect large-scale support" to ensure perestroika's success. But, said British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, "I am sure Mr. Gorbachev is not expecting to find a check under the plate" at the London summit. Primakov and other Soviet officials say Gorbachev will not be asking for any specific amount...