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...Dobrynin to keep the reins of U.S.-Soviet relations in his own hands back in Moscow. "It suggests that Dobrynin intends to remain in control of the American account," said one U.S. official, "because there would not be another indispensable Russian in Washington." Agrees Sovietologist Dimitri Simes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "Dobrynin did not want another Dobrynin." The bigger question, of course, is what Dubinin's appointment portends for U.S.-Soviet relations. As Washington and the Kremlin dicker over when--and whether--to hold another summit meeting between Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan, it cannot...
Ulam, author of 11 books on the Soviet Union, is a prominent Sovietologist and a "leading historian on Soviet foreign policy," Guest said. Although Ulam has done advisory work in Washington several times, he had never met with Reagan, Ulam's wife said yesterday...
Still, one significant change had taken place in her. Sovietologist Leopold Labedz, who met her in 1968, first noticed it in 1981: "She was getting soft on papochka." Once she had acknowledged Stalin's personal responsibility for the death of millions; now she called him a prisoner of Communist ideology. Her new book contained hardly any criticism of her father. She probably felt she had betrayed him. "My father would have shot me for what I have done," she often said during her final year in Britain...
...Kremlin watching are as persistent, and sometimes as frustrated, as their predecessors. Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, whose behind-the-scenes narrative of the Reagan Administration's conduct of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks is a large part of this week's cover package, is a Sovietologist who began his TIME career as a summer trainee in the magazine's Moscow bureau in 1969. Last week Talbott, on his twelfth visit to the Soviet Union, filed his observations of the Soviet foreign policy process. He confesses to once having employed a small ruse in an effort to interview...
...pursue Andropov's campaign for greater discipline and efficiency. The former leader had cracked down on absenteeism and drunkenness on the shop floor and on corruption in government ministries. But Chernenko is a conservative by instinct, with more experience in carrying out than in initiating policies. Says French Sovietologist Hélène Carrère d'Encausse: "He might adopt the themes of the anticorruption campaign, but he will keep the debate ideological and will avoid making waves...