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...wonder why the emperor commissioned such a work. What purposecould such a precise recording serve? Was it meant to record, to legitimize, to intimidate? The problem is compounded by the sheer uniqueness of this work. Its scale (it is one part of eight scrolls) and degree of detail is unlike any other piece presented. Its presence, rather than demonstrating an artistic heritage, compels us to question the relationship of artist to patron and of art to society...
...major arena, however, is Russia, which by sheer size and wealth is sure to dominate any new union. Some intellectuals are already worried about the eclipse of the Supreme Soviet, the union-wide parliament, and the concentration of what central power exists in jerry-built executive bodies. Effective power has flowed largely to Yeltsin, whose habit of issuing frequent and sweeping decrees is making liberals apprehensive...
Even if such an alliance were formed, of course, it might be prevented from coming to power. Sheer self-interest may well push the republics, or at least most of the bigger ones, into an alliance that, combined with massive and timely Western aid, would stop the economic disintegration. And Russians have what German democrats in the Weimar period woefully lacked: forceful, popular leaders like Yeltsin -- who on the whole has been more democrat than autocrat -- St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoli Sobchak and Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov. Authoritarians as yet have no leader with any comparable clout. But a lawyer named...
...Party was no more, the central government dissolved, the security services and armed forces undergoing a painful purge and the Soviet parliament in total disarray. The failed putsch may have left a gaping hole at the very center of power, but Gorbachev was toiling to fill it by the sheer force of his presence...
...reserves, then admitted that he lacked the weapons to arm them. He also revamped his Cabinet, firing his hard-line Defense and Interior ministers and seating an ethnic Serb. In a move that might have meant something a month ago but last week looked like what it was -- sheer panic -- government officials even floated the idea of offering cultural autonomy to Croatia's Serb-dominated regions...