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Analysts were united at least in this: Krenz is no Mikhail Gorbachev. True, Gorbachev was no Gorbachev when he ascended to power almost five years ago. But while Gorbachev was aligned early on with reformist factions within the Communist Party, Krenz is indelibly marked as Honecker's creation. The son of a tailor, Krenz joined the Young Pioneers in his early youth and became a full-fledged Communist Party member by 18. He spent three years at the party academy in Moscow, then returned home to rise quickly through the party ranks. He has been a member of the party...
Afanasyev suffered a nasty embarrassment last month, when Pravda reprinted a lurid dispatch from an Italian newspaper claiming that reformist Supreme Soviet Deputy Boris Yeltsin boozed and shopped his way through a tour of the U.S. The paper was later forced to publish an apology, even though tapes subsequently broadcast over Soviet television appeared to show Yeltsin at least mildly intoxicated. But Afanasyev's most serious failure was one that has also undone many an editor in the West: falling circulation. Over the past four years, as Soviet news buffs switched to livelier journalistic fare, Pravda's readership slipped from...
...Armenia. But after a dramatic all- night debate, legislators in the Supreme Soviet did what not so long ago was unthinkable. They rebuffed the strike proposal as "unconstitutional" and voted instead to put strict limits only on work stoppages that affect critical industries. Said Leningrad Deputy Anatoli Sobchak, a reformist: "We just spent a couple days in the school of democracy. And all the talk led somewhere...
...recent months Prime Minister Hun Sen has been winning favorable reviews. Once regarded as a mere puppet of the authorities in Hanoi, Hun Sen, 38, has emerged as a leader with a mind of his own. Whether by conviction or out of cynical self-interest, he has pursued reformist policies designed to repair his country's shattered economy as well as to endear him to skeptical citizens: the institution of land-tenure rights for farmers, the beginnings of a free-market economy and recognition of Buddhism as the state religion. While Hun Sen's cloudy history as a former member...
Fukuyama, like too many others in the Bush Administration, seems convinced that the reformist, liberalizing trends sweeping the Communist world are essentially irreversible, requiring little more than the applause of the West. Even if updated to take account of the massacre in Tiananmen Square and the Politburo warnings of a crackdown in the Baltics, Fukuyama's thesis will probably not persuade Lech Walesa that history has yet reached a happy ending in Poland...