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...when Zyuganov addresses a meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce in a posh Moscow hotel, he faces the lights and cameras in the guise of an urbane social democrat who is at ease with concepts like a mixed economy and foreign investment. "If our people come to power," he assures the assembled capitalists, "you can look into the future with confidence...
...which is the real Zyuganov? It is a pressing question, since the Communist Party so thoroughly vanquished its rivals in parliamentary elections last month. Voters cast two ballots, one for a party and one for a candidate in their local districts. Appealing to impoverished pensioners and others for whom reform has failed, the Communists took 22% of the party-preference vote; Vladimir Zhirinovsky's ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party came in a surprising second, with only 11%, about half its 1993 level. Altogether, the Communists were allocated 157 of the Duma's 450 seats; Our Home Is Russia, the party supporting...
...Zyuganov may campaign from both sides of his mouth, but his critics think they know exactly who he is. Yegor Gaidar, a reformist rival, argues that while the former communist parties of eastern Europe are moving toward social democracy, the Russian party "is evolving toward national socialism." Otto Latsis, a Moscow political commentator, says Zyuganov heads "the worst part of the old party apparat, the most reactionary fringe." In Washington, State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, a Russian expert, says Zyuganov's Communists are "the inheritors of the most brutal system this century has known, except for the Nazis. We have...
...Zyuganov is a stolid apparatchik, and before last month's balloting, he said he was uncertain whether it would be better for him to run for President or to help elect an antireform leader who had better name recognition and more appeal across party lines. Last week one such candidate put his name forward: Alexander Lebed, a war hero and retired general. Lebed, who is immensely popular with the public and has a strong nationalist voice, said he would run in June and that he hoped to do so in cooperation with the Communists. Party leaders seemed irritated...
Only someone with particular tenacity would remain a communist in Russia throughout the 1990s and then manage to maneuver the party back to the brink of power. The son of village schoolteachers in southwestern Russia, Zyuganov began his career as a full-time party worker in 1967. He was serving as a deputy chief of the ideology department of the Soviet Central Committee in 1990 when he helped found a separate Russian Communist Party. It was created to oppose the reformist course of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, led by Mikhail Gorbachev. Zyuganov proudly says he served...