Word: perestroika
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...Foreign Cultures 72, "Russian Culture from Revolution to Perestroika...
...country's premier think tank, the Institute for World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO). Primakov took over IMEMO at the beginning of the Gorbachev era and quickly became a key part of the Gorbachev team. He played a major role in creating the ideology of perestroika, in particular questioning the communist dogmas that had traditionally determined foreign relations. But his predilection for the shadows and his stiffness in public meant that he received less credit than Gorbachev's more charismatic aides...
...complete opposite of his dour public image. He has the reputation of an accomplished tamada, the master of ceremonies who keeps parties going with banter, songs and humorous speeches. He is widely described as a very loyal, though discriminating, friend, with a social circle that includes former perestroika-era officials, entertainers and academics...
...live the life span of Deng Xiaoping? Andropov was keenly aware of weaknesses in the Soviet system but had none of Gorbachev's moral compunctions about imprisoning or killing enemies. He almost certainly would have moved more aggressively to free the economy but more cautiously on social liberalizations--perestroika without glasnost. Following China's "Dengian policies," he might well have saved the Soviet Union--and extended the cold war indefinitely...
...implode, became an admissible policy. Thatcher warmly encouraged Reagan to rearm and thereby bring Russia to the negotiating table. She shared his view that Moscow ruled an "evil empire," and the sooner it was dismantled the better. Together with Reagan she pushed Mikhail Gorbachev to pursue his perestroika policy to its limits and so fatally to undermine the self-confidence of the Soviet elite...