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History will remember Mikhail Gorbachev as the leader who brought openness (glasnost) and economic restructuring (perestroika) to the Soviet Union, ushering it toward the end of communism. In Rhode Island last week to speak at the Carnegie Abbey Club, Gorbachev, 75, sat down with TIME's Sally B. Donnelly to talk about his new book, To Understand Perestroika, Russia under Vladimir Putin and life after the 1999 death of his beloved wife Raisa...
...into the Rose Garden late last week to declare that the economy "continues to gain strength and momentum." The event had been thrown together so quickly that the usual velvet ropes were not set up to pen back journalists. "We're trying the trusting method," an aide joked. Merry glasnost...
DIED. ALEKSANDR YAKOVLEV, 81, Communist-turned-democratic-reformer known as the "Godfather of Glasnost" for his role in formulating and promoting Mikhail Gorbachev's program of political liberalization in the Soviet Union in the 1980s; in Moscow. After rising through the ranks of the Communist Party as a propagandist and censor, Yakovlev embraced perestroika, or restructuring, and supported political competition, encouraged artists and freedom of the press, and repeatedly publicized abuses perpetrated during the Soviet...
...Soviet presentations stressed Gorbachev's campaign for glasnost, or openness, and Soviet spokesmen talked of "the process of democratization and reform that is taking place now in the Soviet Union." Reform and democratization are not in the traditional lexicon of Kremlin propaganda. The Soviets even discussed internal opposition to Gorbachev's reforms, implicitly suggesting that Soviet society is open to dissent. Questioned about dissidents inside the Soviet Union, the Soviets held their temper and made conciliatory remarks...
...boxy scarlet building at 876 Mass. Ave. between Harvard and Central Squares, playfully claims to offer an ideological “refuge” from oh-so square, gentrified Cambridge. True, many of the patrons look more likely to be carrying briefcases than tattered Red Books, but hey, glasnost happens...