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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev had already secured one of the seats in the new legislature reserved for top party officials. Thus he did not have to confront personally the deflating question that dogs American candidates: Are you better off now than you were four years...
...almost a third of the party's 129 regional leaders lost. Estonians even had the courage to vote down the republic's KGB chief. The city party leader in Leningrad, running against an unknown 28-year-old shipyard engineer, received only 15% of the vote. In fact, the five top Communists in the Leningrad power structure tumbled to defeat. Valeri Terekhov, a member of Leningrad's Democratic Union, an opposition group, noted, "Gorbachev opened a volcano, and I don't think he realized the lava was so deep...
Bush is genuinely fascinated by Soviet affairs. He has frequently held private weekend seminars with experts on the subject, and he chose card- carrying Kremlinologists for the top two jobs on the National Security Council staff. One of the first documents Bush signed as President was an order to the Executive Branch to reassess relations and recommend a strategy that looks ahead to the next century. The review is supposed to be an American answer to Gorbachev's "new thinking." Yet to meet that challenge, the study may have to work its way free of attitudes and assumptions that could...
Like it or not, things are moving quickly for Brigada S. This summer the group will release its first two albums, following the top-selling unauthorized concert disk put out last year by Melodiya, the country's sole record label. There is talk of a U.S. tour as well, possibly in June. "We're hoping to sign a few small contracts," Sukachev admits. Still, he says he wouldn't give up the band's underground years for anything. "Those years are our strength," he says. "We'd be nothing without them...
...Leningrad the top five party leaders were all wiped out. Also fallen: about a third of the 129 regional party leaders, Moscow's mayor, Lithuania's top leadership, the KGB boss in Estonia, the admiral of the Pacific fleet and the general of Soviet forces in East Germany, the party boss in Kiev, and Yevgeni Brakov, the manager of Moscow's ZIL limousine factory, who had the thankless task of taking on Yeltsin...