Word: perestroikas
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...both more substantial and more of a patchwork. Stories are a combination of fresh material and recycled pieces that have aired on CNN earlier in the day. A report on the Soviet elections, for example, began with narration by anchorman Brian Todd, who carefully defined such concepts as perestroika. But then came a report from Moscow correspondent Steve Hurst, who tossed out phrases like "party apparatchik" without further elaboration...
Does he have a year? Paul Goble, deputy director of research at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, argues that if Gorbachev still intends to follow the path of perestroika and demokratizatsiya, he will have to allow the Baltics to break away by Christmas and possibly Moldavia not long thereafter. Some experts, such as Francois Heisbourg, director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, believe Gorbachev will use military force as a last resort to hold things together. Western intelligence officers, however, say the army has intervened very reluctantly in ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus and Central Asia and will...
People are losing their confidence in perestroika, considering it for the most part to be rhetoric. Many have lost their faith in Mikhail Gorbachev. But the biggest trouble in our house has come from the least expected place: our rich family of nationalities...
...embarrassed initiators of perestroika are still unable to define this problem and rely instead on such terms as nationalism, conflict and separatism. They still don't have enough courage to use the appropriate words, for we are witnessing the crash of the last world empire, coupled with the downfall of what was most Stalinist in the Stalinist system...
Today we are confronted with a Stalinist map of the country, and have used it as the basis for carrying out perestroika, accepting this unified landmass as a historic entity. Our tensions spring from an inadequate understanding of a most crucial fact: the U.S.S.R. is not a country, nor is it a state. The Eurasian territory that is marked as such on the maps is a world of worlds made of different cultures and civilizations. It is a neighborhood of states and nations that are tired of their colonial and colonizing past, that have been tortured and humiliated by Stalinist...