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...friend and law-school classmate of Gorbachev's, Lukyanov played at best an ambiguous role in the coup; he was not a member of the Emergency Committee but has been accused by some of Yeltsin's aides of being the mastermind behind the whole plot. Hard on their heels, Rutskoi and his avengers also took off for the Crimea -- taking care to bring guns...
Possibly Kryuchkov and Yazov hoped to negotiate with Gorbachev an end to the coup that would preserve some of their power. Or maybe they simply intended to beg for forgiveness and leniency. Rutskoi and his friends, however, feared they might want to kill the Soviet President. The thought that some of the plotters might try to execute him in a last attempt to save the coup occurred to Gorbachev as well. One of his first calls on Wednesday was to the chief of his personal guard at the Kremlin, working out arrangements to guarantee his safety on a return...
...struggle between hard-liners and radicals has splintered the party into rival factions. They range from the Bolshevik Platform of neo-Stalinist gadfly Nina Andreyeva to the radical Communists for Democracy group led by Russian vice president Alexander Rutskoi. Sergeyev contends that his Communist Initiative movement alone counts at least 3.5 million sympathizers. Other alternatives are emerging on the fringes of the party. With the tacit approval of Gorbachev, former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze set up a Democratic Reform Movement earlier this month to further perestroika. Last week Alexander Yakovlev, a key architect of Gorbachev's changes, quit the government...
...partocrats," local apparatchiks with considerable administrative authority, squirmed in embarrassment as Yeltsin forced them to listen to the grievances of local folk. "Why is your vice-presidential candidate ((Alexander Rutskoi)) a Communist?" asked a gruff peasant. "Communists can work well," Yeltsin responded. "They can in essence be honest people." In the village of Muslyumovo, north of Chelyabinsk, where the fallout from nuclear waste and a 1957 nuclear disaster still pollutes the environment, Yeltsin was clearly moved by anguished demands for greater government response to the village's medical needs. Then, like a benevolent Czar in a Russian folktale, he promised...
Ryzhkov, who was replaced as prime minister in January, thought he had pocketed the military vote when he chose General Boris Gromov as his running mate. An articulate hard-liner, Gromov served as the Soviet commander in Afghanistan before becoming Deputy Interior Minister in December. But even if Rutskoi does win votes from enlisted men and reform-minded Communists, Ryzhkov has earned the support of the military-industrial complex and the party bureaucracy through his attacks on economic "shock therapy" and his defense of the country's "socialist choice." Because Ryzhkov and Gromov are counting so much on local party...