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Gorbachev's two liberal economic advisers, Stanislav Shatalin and Nikolai Petrakov, who were among the chief architects of the 500-Day Plan, say their handiwork "horrified" and "galvanized" the conservatives and led to a crisis session of the party leadership. According to Shatalin, one of the strongest opponents of his plan was Valentin Pavlov, who was then Finance Minister. It was Pavlov, recently appointed Prime Minister, who last month cast a chill on investors from abroad by accusing Westerners of plotting to flood the Soviet market with billions of rubles, wreck the economy and ultimately overthrow Gorbachev. Two weeks...
...Cabinet of Ministers, the Prime Minister has four First Deputies; all of them have links with the military-industrial complex. When Gorbachev's economic advisers Shatalin and Petrakov resigned after the military crackdown in the Baltics in January, he replaced them with two apparatchiks from the staff of the party Central Committee. Says Bogomolov: "Gorbachev is less the President nowadays than the Communist Party General Secretary, carrying out the decisions of the Politburo and the party plenum...
...Russians copied from the Czechs all they could to free themselves of the worst tyranny ever known to man. When I asked Gorbachev's former top economic adviser, Stanislav Shatalin, why Russia did not just carbon-copy all the Czech commercial and tax codes, instead of endlessly debating how to reinvent the wheel, he replied, "Because the Czechs solve their differences in a bar over a beer, while we use knives...
DIED. STANISLAV SHATALIN, 62, witty economist who was a principal architect of "500 Days," the bold 1990 plan to convert the Soviet Union to a market economy, drafted at Mikhail Gorbachev's urging but dropped under pressure from Gorbachev's more conservative advisers; in Moscow...
...disputes which side has more muscle. The deployment of paratroops in Lithuania and black berets in Latvia has shown the range of powers at the command of what former presidential adviser Stanislav Shatalin calls the "black colonels" now surrounding Gorbachev. This is a reference to a conservative clique of officers in the Soviet parliament who opposed Shevardnadze. Their growing influence has been reflected in fiddling with weapons limits in defiance of the Conventional Arms Agreement signed in Paris last year, and in an increasingly obstinate stance on the timetable for Soviet troop withdrawals from Eastern Europe. The major obstacle...