Word: perestroika
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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Gorbachev has his own domestic agenda to consider. He is deeply committed to his crusade for perestroika, an overhaul or restructuring of the entire * Soviet economic and social order. His vision entails far more than just reducing drunkenness on the job and replacing petty-minded bureaucrats with efficient technocrats. He wants to make the Soviet Union an economic superpower as well as a military...
Gorbachev is not so eager to reach an agreement with the U.S. that he will compromise Soviet security interests, nor so keen for perestroika that he will stint on defense. He sometimes feels compelled to remind his audience -- and certainly his critics -- that military security comes before economic well- being. But at the same time, SDI has forced Gorbachev and others to re- examine what they call "common security." For leaders who see themselves as the caretakers of a great revolutionary tradition, the men in the Kremlin are extremely conservative. They dislike discontinuity, uncertainty, unpredictability. SDI has compelled them...