Word: whats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The second session of the Congress of People's Deputies had barely begun last week when a bald, stoop-shouldered man hesitantly made his way to the front of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Mikhail Gorbachev motioned for Deputy Andrei Sakharov to step up to the podium, then settled back...
There have probably been moments, like the one last week, when Gorbachev had second thoughts about the telephone call he made to the city of Gorky in 1986, informing Sakharov and his wife Elena Bonner that they could return to Moscow after seven years of political exile. Like the prophets...
At a time when his popularity has climbed to new heights abroad, Gorbachev must fend off growing attacks at home from two fronts: what he calls the "adventurists" and the "reactionaries." Last week the Soviet leader took on the adventurist radicals, criticizing them for racing "like firemen, with clanging bells...
Still in the saddle after Hollywood, hard drinking and two failed marriages, the rambunctious novelist has just produced what critics call his best book to date.
The Soviet Union has formidable reserves of resiliency, as it showed during the crisis of Hitler's invasion. But what if the dark forebodings of a Soviet screenwriter came true?