Word: perestroikas
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...glasnost and perestroika," said Terry A. Donovan, associate director of IOP. "To have these people here at this particular time in history will present students with a great opportunity to learn about changes taking place in the Soviet Union...
Merkushev, who will be studying the effect of perestroika on journalism in the Soviet Union, said that Gorbachev's glasnost reforms have destroyed the Soviet press as a "monolithic" institution...
Sturua, a member of Nikita Kruschev's "brain trust" and a journalist with Izvestia for the past 40 years, will run a seminar called "Perestroika--Past, Present, and Future...
...wake of Gorbachev's liberalizing reforms, the once proud armed forces have grown increasingly demoralized, and their popular prestige has plummeted. Young recruits complain of rampant hazing, even homosexual rape. Ethnic violence has racked many units; some military men claim that more Soviet soldiers have died in perestroika-era ethnic clashes than in Afghanistan. "How can an army that can't defend its own soldiers defend an entire country?" asks Valentina Zhukova, 42, whose son Edward was killed under mysterious circumstances while he was on active duty in Siberia. "They have no prestige...
...U.S.S.R.'s landmass and is home to 147 million of its 289 million people, he holds a strong power base where he is now free to try his own more radical brand of reform. Even if the party does not split formally, Gorbachev could be left trying to implement perestroika through a rump dominated by moderates unable to keep pace with leftists outside the party...