Word: rossiya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes approving changes and at other times reflecting the views of the Politburo's conservative members. As for investigative journalism that turned up scandals from the past, Afanasyev gradually grew tired of exhumed skeletons. "To dig around in the dirty linen of our history," he told the daily Sovetskaya Rossiya in September, "merely serves to lead people away from the solution of our contemporary problems...
...reliance and experimentation had to evolve into more than just a prescription issued from the Kremlin. Gorbachev can take satisfaction and possibly draw some political strength from the evidence in Kuzbass and Donbass that workers may be stirring from the "stagnation" of the Leonid Brezhnev years. The daily Sovetskaya Rossiya put it succinctly: "Perestroika, which has until recently been a 'revolution from above,' is getting strong support from below...
Andreeva's challenge first came in a letter to the conservative daily Sovetskaya Rossiya, attacking "left-wing intellectual socialism," a reference to the flirtation with democracy and glasnost practiced by such journals as Ogonyok and Moscow News. The current debate, she wrote, focused on "whether or not to recognize the leading role of the party and the working class in socialist construction and in perestroika." The intelligentsia, she claimed, "almost as a force is hostile to socialism...
Harsh words, and not just the views of a lone woman. Sovetskaya Rossiya's editors gave her letter (some Soviets believe it was actually written by Andreeva's husband, a fellow teacher) the prominence of an editorial. After it appeared, orders were issued, supposedly by Yegor Ligachev, then the party's leading ideologue, that the letter should be studied by military units and other party cadres. Significantly, publication took place the day Gorbachev departed on a visit to Yugoslavia. After his return, Pravda counterattacked, labeling the letter "an attempt to reverse party policy...
...magazine New Times publishes an interview with Lev Kopelev, a well- known Russian dissident who today supports perestroika from his home in Cologne, then the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya attacks Kopelev in the best traditions of Stalinist phraseology, explaining in the same breath that Kopelev is a Jew. This recalls the old Russian round-dance game in which one group of dancers sings, "And we the millet have sown and sown . . ." And the other answers, "And we the millet shall trample, trample...