Word: perestroikas
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Critiques dominated the two-day Kremlin meeting of the Central Committee. Ivan Polozkov, head of the Russian republic's Communist Party, told Gorbachev, "I cannot understand how, after taking on such a large and responsible affair as perestroika, you have let the steering wheel slip from your hands." Admiral Gennadi Khvatov, commander of the Pacific fleet, intoned the old slogan, "The fatherland is in danger." Gorbachev, tired of the harangues, stormed to the rostrum and announced he would resign...
...Perestroika has made little headway at the KGB, but the Soviet spies are taking a stab at glasnost. Even though KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov still delivers speeches with Stalinist overtones, his year-old public relations department is busy polishing the agency's image. It has opened a museum at headquarters in Moscow's Dzerzhinsky Square, allows some officers to give interviews and recently ran a Miss KGB contest in which women in bulletproof vests competed in skills like cooking, shooting, dancing, karate and applying makeup...
...with the advent of perestroika in recent years, the nature of Vessenski's profession in the Soviet Union is changing. As a high-ranking editor of the influential newspaper Literatunaya Gazeta, Vessenski has been on the cutting edge of the country's drive towards openness...
Vessenski hasn't always been on the forefront of the Soviet perestroika movement, but he has perhaps enjoyed more freedom in his journalistic career than most of his compatriots...
...aftermath of the referendum on the future of the U.S.S.R., many Soviets and Americans seem to agree that reform is dead, or at least dying. They cite the troubles besetting perestroika, new limits on glasnost, the growing role of the military and the KGB in domestic politics, and an overall shift to the right. Pessimists talk as though there were only two alternatives: the disintegration of the country or the return of totalitarianism. In fact, while each nightmare scenario is plausible, a third, far happier outcome is still possible. Indeed, it could come about as a result of the interaction...