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...Communist Party virtually disappeared overnight, its leadership disbanded, its offices padlocked, its funds frozen, its publications silenced -- though Pravda reappeared Saturday as an independent paper purportedly reflecting a "civic consensus." By a 283-to-29 vote, with 52 abstentions, the Supreme Soviet suspended party activities throughout the U.S.S.R., formalizing what had already been accomplished by decree in the individual republics. The Soviet parliament also dismissed the entire Cabinet of Ministers, which numbered around 70, after President Gorbachev announced with unaccustomed succinctness, "I cannot trust this Cabinet, and that is that." That leaves what is being called a "transitional government" -- transition...
...turn the country into a confederation, a "Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics." The power to govern will flow out from the central offices in Moscow to the parliaments of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and especially to the largest of all, Yeltsin's Russia. "Gorbachev is back in power," says Alex Pravda, a Soviet expert at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, "but the presidential office is shrinking under his feet...
Forty-six chiefs of eight defense-related ministries signed an open letter in Pravda. They complained that new laws at both the national and local level were "aimed at destroying our complex," which was becoming the target of "destructive criticism and attacks." Such conflict, they fretted, even raised doubts about the need for the military-industrial complex. They declared that whatever changes might go on elsewhere, there had to be a "centralized system of management of defense programs." The next month Gorbachev rejected the 500-Day Plan, and economic reform came to a halt. "We have solid information," says...
Splashed across the front page of Pravda the next day was the text of the leaders' agreement. It was essential to "restore the constitutional order everywhere," their statement said, and they decided to begin with such remedial economic measures as abolishing the new 5% sales tax, reviewing recent price increases and indexing incomes to the cost of living. On the political front, Gorbachev and the republic presidents cited as their "top priority" the signing of a new treaty of union among themselves and the central government. Six months after that, a new Soviet constitution would be adopted and national elections...
...cannot indoctrinate youth with the slogans of adults," Vessenski says. "[Komsommorsky Pravda] had some possibility to write things that [the Soviet newspapers] Izvestia and Pravda didn't write...