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...significant rivalries do develop, they could seriously disrupt East-West relations. "I don't know whether it will change the direction of Soviet policies," says U.S. Sovietologist Seweryn Bialer, "but I will look for confrontations, divisions, splits - a volatile situation within the leadership. It will be a dangerous, unpredictable period...
Nonetheless, the workers' revolt shouts out Communism's economic and ideological failures and reminds the world that the glue of Soviet hegemony is force and intimidation, not shared purpose. Says Seweryn Bialer, head of Columbia University's Research Institute on International Change: "Previous challenges to Soviet control have come from above, from the leaders of satellite nations. The Polish challenge comes from below, from the workers, the only class of which the Soviet Union is afraid...
...private, Brzezinski is far less pugnacious. Says former Aide Samuel Hoskinson, "He's a gentleman and a scholar in the true sense of the words." Seweryn Bialer, a fellow Polish American who succeeded Brzezinski as director of the Research Institute on International Change at Columbia University, calls him "extraordinarily decent and honest." Bialer says he has profound disagreements with the Carter Administration, particularly over its difficulty in promulgating clear and steady policies, but he does not blame Brzezinski alone: "It's the President's fault. My disappointment with Brzezinski is that he cannot change the President...
...field. Assistant Picture Editor Michele Stephenson and Researcher Julia Richer culled 50,000 photographs. Tom Bentkowski produced the issue's special design. For guidance in their Stakhanovite labors, the staff could turn to TIME Soviet Specialist Patricia Blake-who wrote the Books story on Russian fiction-and Seweryn Bialer, professor of political science at Columbia University, who served as consultant...
...more than a touch of wishful thinking in their speculation, predict that the U.S.S.R. will come apart along its Muslim seams in the south and east. Others, including National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, also look for trouble in Eastern Europe, particularly in Brzezinski's native Poland. Columbia University's Seweryn Bialer agrees. Until now, he says, the Soviets have been fortunate that uprisings have broken out in only one country at a time in Eastern Europe?East Germany, 1953; Hungary, 1956; Czechoslovakia, 1968. "They will not be so lucky in the '80s," he predicts...