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...more difficult to calculate Moscow's tolerance of reform. Without fundamentally violating Communist orthodoxy, some experts believe, Gierek might be able to promise a degree of worker participation in decision-making on the factory level. Kremlinologist Simes feels that certain concessions could safely be made in the area of labor organization?free trade unions at the shop level, for example, but no factory-or industry-wide unions. No matter the forms, stresses Eastern Europe Scholar Mastny, "Gierek must be able to reassert the political monopoly of the Communist Party...
There were scattered but serious anti-Russian riots by the Uzbeks of Tashkent in 1966 and 1969 and the Tadzhiks of Dushanbe in 1978. In those cases, the Soviet army garrisons outside those cities were put on alert and used for crowd control. A U.S. Government Kremlinologist has hypothesized that if it were not for the presence of Moscow's military and security forces, as many as seven of the 15 Soviet republics would exercise their constitutional right to secede from the U.S.S.R...
...their peers in the West. Says a West German defense expert: "In theory, strategy and tactics, Soviet military training is top grade." Especially admired are the senior commanders, such as Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, 62, the Chief of Staff, and Fleet Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, 70, Commander of the Navy. Says Kremlinologist John Erickson, director of defense studies at the University of Edinburgh: "They are very able, very tough and on a par with the best military brains in the West...
Robert Legvold, the senior Kremlinologist for the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, returned from a recent visit to the U.S.S.R. deeply discouraged: "There is a sense in Moscow that we may have passed through a watershed and may be entering a long period of tensions. The Soviets recognize that what is now happening between us is of historic proportions. They believe that détente is dead for the foreseeable future. They know that by invading Afghanistan, they buried détente. But in their view it had already been fatally poisoned by the U.S. They refuse to come...
Dimitri K. Simes, 31, made the unusual jump from Moscow Americanologist to Washington Kremlinologist. A Jew, he was able to emigrate in 1973 and is now director of Soviet studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies...