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...prices rise. The sting in the air makes shopping even more of a hardship. As citizens trudge from store to store in the dark, their frustration is, as it has always been, aimed at their leader in the Kremlin. But unlike the Czars and the General Secretaries before him, Yeltsin does not rely on terror to enforce the silence and passivity of the populace. Instead, he has to address its grievances and contend with its elected representatives...
...Yeltsin is sometimes said to be presiding over the Second Russian Revolution. But that understates and oversimplifies the challenge facing him and his people. Russia is actually in the throes of three transformations at once: from totalitarianism to democracy, from a command economy to a free market, and from a multinational empire to a nation-state. Any one of these would be arduous enough all by itself. Undertaking three revolutions simultaneously with so little warning and preparation has overloaded the circuits...
...Moscow count even its modest accomplishments secure. For months there have been warnings of a showdown between reformists and reactionaries. Russians and Russia watchers alike talk about "the December scenario." The opening act will take place during the Congress of People's Deputies that begins this week. Yeltsin's opponents are expected to launch an all-out offensive to restrict his personal authority, reverse his main policies and remove his key ministers. In the scarier versions of the scenario, the maneuvers against the Russian government could be a prelude to a parliamentary upheaval or even a putsch...
...going to reap domestic dividends from the end of the cold war, Clinton must help Yeltsin prevail on his own home front. That means more than just coping with cataclysms -- it means heading them off by helping Russia manage its peaceful metamorphosis on a month-to-month, even day-to-day, basis. And that, in turn, means Yeltsin and Clinton have a lot more to talk about, on the phone and in person, before this winter is over...
When it came to forging Soviet power, Joseph Stalin and his successors more than fulfilled their plan. Now Boris Yeltsin and, presumably, his successors have to undo it. The country simply cannot afford such oversize armed forces, and the civilian economy desperately needs the money, talent and productive power locked inside the military-industrial complex. But demobilizing on such a scale poses an especially Herculean challenge to a country that barely has a functioning economy and has no national consensus on how cutting down the troops, the arsenal and the production lines ought to occur...