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...some Russian experts is that Yeltsin waited too long and compromised too much before firing this last desperate shot. If he had promulgated his decree on private ownership of land a year ago, says one Moscow intellectual, "he wouldn't be in the mess he is now." Robert Legvold, director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and a supporter of Yeltsin, says, "He's in a very deep hole, so his plan is not likely to work. It's an act of extraordinary desperation. He let the situation get away from...
...Robert Legvold. Director of the Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union at Columbia University...
...crush them. Besides, if Gorbachev was not responsible, does that mean he has lost control to the conservatives in the army and the KGB and is being forced to front for their demands for order? U.S. analysts doubt that. "Gorbachev is a hostage to his own policy," says Robert Legvold, director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute. "Things may be going further than he wants, but he charted the course...
...Soviet President has immense powers on paper but little ability to rule in the separatist regions. Legvold predicts that "Gorbachev will try to sit on these people through ((Defense Minister)) Yazov. He wants it to be with as little recrimination from abroad and as little mayhem in the area as possible." After Lithuania, any republic that does not knuckle under to Moscow could feel the fist next...
...dance between left and right is astounding," says the Harriman Institute's Robert Legvold. "Gorbachev postpones many decisions, but when there are hard choices to be made, he opts squarely for change. As centrists often do, he is losing popularity, but across the ideological spectrum, he is deemed indispensable...