Word: perestroikas
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...outflank the stultifying bureaucracy by offering to provide funds directly to those market-oriented innovations. He might give loans, along with managerial training, to budding Soviet entrepreneurs who want to buy state enterprises that are marked for privatization. Well handled, such new companies could demonstrate the virtues of perestroika and provide employment for some of the millions who will be thrown out of work once the Soviet Union embraces efficiency and productivity...
...resignation of the entire Central Committee and its ruling Politburo. The daring delegate also wanted the party leadership to tell the 4,657 delegates why so little had been accomplished since the last party Congress, in February 1986, which had launched Gorbachev's ambitious -- and increasingly beleaguered -- program of perestroika to transform the Soviet Union...
...events on the calendar of perestroika had been invested with so much importance as the 28th Congress. It was supposed to mark the long-awaited - turning point, when reformers would finally seize control of party power from entrenched bureaucrats and release the brakes on radical change. Gorbachev would quit straddling the widening gap between the party's fractious wings and align himself once and for all with democratic liberals. There was also speculation that he might step down as General Secretary and devote full attention to his new presidential office, sealing the shift of power away from the party...
This political perestroika is far more than organizational tinkering. It is opening up a range of ideas and influences no one could have imagined under the old ways. Even a year ago, an analysis of the policy debate in Moscow would have focused almost exclusively on party leaders, the well-known Gorbachev allies like Politburo member Eduard Shevardnadze and equally prominent opponents like Politburo member Yegor Ligachev and former Moscow party chief Boris Yeltsin. Today new approaches and fledgling political parties are emerging across the spectrum, from Gorbachev's left to his far right, reshaping Soviet politics. Some...
...acting chief of the party propaganda department, where he won favor with liberal intellectuals. In 1985 Gorbachev put him back in charge of that department. He has been the President's closest adviser for years, responsible for much of the philosophic theory underpinning glasnost and perestroika. Gorbachev, claims Yakovlev, is not power hungry and sometimes finds his job a burden. He says that Gorbachev resisted his repeated urgings to take the position of Executive President until he concluded that it was what the country needed. Because -- or in spite -- of his year as an exchange student at Columbia University...