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...heat from Moscow, discovered that they could keep a grip on their jobs only by throwing in their lot with the nationalist forces in their regions -- actually representing their constituents' interests in dealing with Moscow. In most republics, it has now become good politics for Communist officials to shake a fist at the Kremlin...
...rapid growth of the republic's Popular Front before the crushing intervention of the Soviet army in mid-January; the main issues were autonomy from Moscow and an end to the Communist Party monopoly of power. But elsewhere, profound Islamic forces -- some of them violent -- have begun to shake up the status quo in response to Gorbachev's decision to allow freedom of conscience throughout the Soviet Empire. Examples...
...cannot reconcile ourselves to the idea that the U.S.S.R. as a country has no future. Each of the existing worlds within the empire longs for nothing less than sovereignty. But the Soviet leadership is unable to shake its belief that a fundamental revision of our national system would result in anarchy and disintegration. In reality, the Kremlin is actually pushing the republics toward secession. The Baltic states have found themselves forced to move in that direction. This tendency could affect the other republics as well unless we come up with the only possible alternative to secession: sovereign and politically independent...
These travels do nothing, however, to shake hisextraordinary love for the community in which hehas spent nearly 40 years, he says. "I sat down towrite a poem at the Alhambra in Granada, and whatI wrote about was the students of Dunster House...
...Gorbachev's success in tearing down the old communist order could shake the faith of even the staunchest supporters of Marxism...