Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Perestroika is a revolution," Gorbachev insists, and only two weeks ago he warned a meeting of top Communist Party leaders that any official at any level who was not prepared to man the barricades would be purged. He had already proved his seriousness by ousting Leningrad party chief Yuri Solovyov...
Almost all delegates at the conference reviled the Khmer Rouge, which was routed in a Vietnamese invasion in early 1979 after its fighters killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in a revolution to reform the country into an agrarian commune.
Coal miners walking off their jobs from the Ukraine to the Arctic Circle. Ethnic gangs battling in Georgia. Thousands of other dissatisfied workers threatening strikes. "The situation," said Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev last week as he surveyed the turmoil rocking his vast country, "is fraught with dangerous political and economic...
In fact, it would be difficult for Gorbachev to oppose the workers' calls for greater independence from the dead hand of Moscow ministries. That is a central ingredient in his plans to revitalize the Soviet economy by encouraging local initiative. But to be effective, the idea of self-reliance and...
Will the "revolution from below" accelerate Gorbachev's ambitious plans for reform or tear the country apart? -- A breakthrough in U.S.-Soviet negotiations over the elimination of chemical weapons heralds progress on the thorny verification issue. -- Fighting at breathtaking altitudes, Indians and Pakistanis remain locked in an icy stalemate over...