Word: sovietism
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...party comrades as General Albert Makashov, who led the armed assault on Moscow's main television center during the abortive coup of October 1993; the so-called red millionaire Vladimir Semago, who is reported to own a string of city casinos; and Yuri Maslyukov, the last head of the Soviet State Planning Commission and a candidate member of Gorbachev's Politburo. He still believes, as Gorbachev did, that with some fine-tuning the communist system can be made to work...
Another Zyuganov colleague is General Valentin Varennikov, a former commander of Soviet ground troops who was acquitted of charges arising from his involvement with the putsch against Gorbachev in August 1991. Varennikov perhaps forgot how many audiences his party is now addressing and assured an assembly of retired military officers in mid-March that they should not be misled by the moderate propaganda they have been hearing from communist leaders. "You have read only our minimum program," said Varennikov, his dress uniform glittering with medals. "But there is also a maximum program that has never been published. Let's take...
This hint that the party has something up its sleeve was so broad that even hard-liners felt they had to deny there was a plan for anything more specific than restoring Soviet power. General Makashov said sardonically, "What is our maximum program? The Kingdom of God on earth--or communism, as we call it--before the third millennium." But Zyuganov apparently felt real damage had been done. He told reporters at a press conference last Friday that his election front, which he calls "a patriotic, popular coalition," was preparing "short-term, middle-term and long-term programs" and that...
...objective all the Russian communists and their allies seem to agree on: the humiliating breakup of the Soviet Union must be reversed. A nonbinding resolution to that effect passed in the Duma last month and generated a powerful backlash from the West and from former Soviet republics that are now independent, especially Ukraine, Georgia and the Baltic states. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher called the resolution "intimidation" and a "dark vision." The communists were unrepentant, though Zyuganov did repeat his usual line that of course the reunification of the U.S.S.R. will be "gradual" and "no one will encroach...
...neighbors might not like it, but remaking the Soviet empire is a bedrock issue for the communists' new coalition. It is central to Zyuganov's strategy of pulling in non-Marxist nationalists and anti-Western and pan-Slavic ideologues. This is not something completely new for communists. Even in the heyday of Soviet power, there were two tendencies in the leadership. The internationalist wing of the party put Marxist revolutionary goals above Soviet national interests. The opposing "statist" group--followers and admirers of Stalin--put Russia first. So do they...