Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UNION: YELTSIN'S GREAT COMEBACK...
...faces express determination, involvement, expectation but also anxiety, for Mikhail Gorbachev is well on his way to creating a new U.S.S.R. TIME presents a 63-page report on how his reforms are changing the Soviet Union, from polling booth to factory, from classroom to stage, from wheat field to metropolitan market. Whatever course the Gorbachev revolution finally takes, it is already one of the most momentous events of the second half of the 20th century...
...looks more like a Rust Belt relic than a showplace of new industrial ideas. The Elektrosila power-equipment plant is an aging labyrinth of concrete buildings and connecting tunnels. Nearly half its creaky machine tools and other equipment was built in the 1960s. Yet this factory is the Soviet Union's largest producer of turbine generators for hydroelectric plants and nuclear power stations. Moreover, Elektrosila stands at the forefront of Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign to rejuvenate Soviet industry by freeing factories from the total, stifling control of government bureaucracies...
...turned down repeated offers of ministry jobs in Moscow. "I'm in love with what I'm doing now. Besides, I do more good here. So far, I have had no bad flukes, so I sleep pretty well. But there are a lot of general managers in the Soviet Union who don't sleep well at all these days." As any capitalist would tell them, a little restlessness is good for business...
There are signs that Gorbachev's revolution has in fact engendered "new thinking" within the Communist Party. When party members are asked the touchy question of whether the Soviet Union might someday have a multiparty system, an impressive 36% express readiness to entertain the notion. Among the general public, 40% of the men thought the Communist Party would eventually have competition, while women were more conservative, with only 27% taking that view. Another surprise: even after decades of official atheism, half of all party members say religious believers can also be members of the Communist Party...