Word: perestroikas
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...time on the ideological and geopolitical issues at the core of the relationship that arms control was largely relegated to "working groups" manned by deputies. But the current leaders in Washington have come to realize that they are limited in what they can do to help Gorbachev succeed with perestroika. And the U.S. and the Soviet Union are nowhere near jointly managing the emergence of a new international order. George Bush is still groping for "the vision thing," and Gorbachev has his hands full keeping his own country in one piece. Therefore it's back to basics, and that means...
...After somewhat of an enlivening in the firsttwo years of perestroika, the economy began todecline, interethnic feuds reached bloodshed,people began to experience fear, and in someplaces there is practically dual power," Ligachevsaid in remarks reported by Tass...
...anarchy, always the darkest nightmare in Russian hearts, is now widespread. Too much has happened too soon -- in Eastern Europe, in the Baltics, in the Muslim south -- and it seems to many that things are flying apart. The front page of Izvestia asked last week, "Will there be perestroika or not?" Literaturnaya Gazeta echoed the question, commenting, "All the weak points are coming to the fore, regardless of which region you try to assess." A group of liberal parliamentarians demanded a special session of the legislature to discuss the crisis in the Caucasus. Said People's Deputy Sergei Stankevich: "There...
...only the outlook for perestroika that is in doubt; Gorbachev's own future seems less than guaranteed. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov repeated the traditional response last week when asked whether the President's position was endangered: "There is no alternative to it. There are no alternative leaders. There are no alternative policies." That is not self-evident. In the Soviet Union there are always alternatives, even if they are unpleasant, and there are always ambitious leaders, even if they are unimaginative...
Even without a head-to-head challenger, continued upheavals in the non- Russian republics and perestroika's failure to fill empty stores with food and clothing are sending Gorbachev's popularity plummeting among ordinary citizens. How Mikhail Gorbachev handles the occupation of Azerbaijan -- and how the Azerbaijanis react -- will affect not only the future of his policies but the fate of the policymaker himself...