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...What did you think of the Communist Party plenum that was held after Gorbachev met with the nine leaders...
...Communist Party Central Committee plenum, Gorbachev invited the leaders of nine of the 15 Soviet republics, including Russia's maverick chief, Boris Yeltsin, to a conference at a secluded dacha in the woods outside Moscow. The six republics that are bent on immediate independence -- Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldavia, Georgia and Armenia -- were not asked...
...document's most immediate effect was to strengthen Gorbachev as he walked into the party plenum assembled in the Kremlin to denounce him for his failure to bring the country to order. It proved he could make progress on the crucial issue of the union treaty, even garnering Yeltsin's support. It also reminded the communist chieftains that he does not depend solely on them for his political authority...
...doubt remained that orthodoxy was fighting back, it was dispelled by the views aired at an angry Jan. 31 party plenum. Speeches by Central Committee members roundly knocked perestroika as a policy gone astray, attacked freedom of the press and condemned the Kremlin leadership's abandonment of Marxist principles in favor of "bourgeois morality." These Communists made it plain they were not about to give way to a multiparty system. The entire tone of the gathering suggested a council of war, and there were no recorded disagreements by Mikhail Gorbachev. A few days later, the Soviet President took...
...October Yeltsin told a Central Committee plenum that he was resigning from the Politburo and went on to denounce the slow pace of economic reform under perestroika. Particularly galling to Gorbachev must have been Yeltsin's observation that there was still not a "good atmosphere" at the top of the party. Yeltsin disapproved, he said, of the "increase in what I can only call adulation of the General Secretary by certain full members of the Politburo...