Word: perestroikas
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Gorbachev comes across as a brilliant bumpkin from cossack country who could not have made it without Raisa, a doctor of Marxist theory and, in the Sheehy version, the real "prophet of perestroika." How two devout party members could have climbed to the top of the Communist apparatus while nurturing heretical ideas is the subject that gives the author her central thesis of how Gorbachev operates...
...typical Soviet fashion, perestroika took another lurching step forward last week. TASS, the government news agency, announced formation of a Moscow Stock Exchange, the first since 1917. The new exchange already has 187 prospective companies and banks. Soviet securities will be represented overseas by international brokerage firms. And Moscow's Big Board plans to open offices in other world financial capitals, like Tokyo and New York...
...this is perestroika now," objects a young man. "Things must change, mustn't they...
...Must they indeed!" snorts the unkempt philosopher. "Perestroika is an everlasting process...
Judging that at last it was possible to publish practically anything in his homeland, Solzhenitsyn finally spoke out from his home in Cavendish, Vt. Opening his piece with the potent words "The death knell has sounded for Communism," he dismissed the years of "noisy perestroika" as a waste that brought about an "ugly, fake, election system" with just one goal: preserving the Communists' power. Arguing that the Soviet empire "sucks all juices" from the Russian heartland, Solzhenitsyn called for the creation of a Slavic state comprising the republics of Russia, the Ukraine, Belorussia and the northern parts of Kazakhstan, which...