Word: leningrad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Party conservatives who long masqueraded as yea-sayers to Gorbachev have begun to regroup. Leningrad party boss Boris Gidaspov was roundly criticized from the floor of the Congress last week for making "threats against our leader" and "sounding nostalgic notes" for the past. Surprised by the attack, Gidaspov claimed that everything going on in Leningrad was aimed at "speeding up perestroika." Gorbachev watched the whole spectacle impassively from the tribunal...
Meanwhile, the national Communist Party is under attack from within. Last month the leaders of Leningrad's Communist Party arranged an unprecedented demonstration to criticize Moscow for not defending the party against glasnost-inspired attacks. If this outburst reflects apparatchik sentiment, legalizing competitive groups would arouse not only outrage but perhaps a concerted effort to oust Gorbachev. The Leningrad protest provoked a countermarch by some 40,000 incensed citizens who proclaimed their support for Gorbachev's efforts to rejuvenate the party through open criticism...
...Musical Director James D. Yannatos chose"Hour of the Soul" after hearing the piece at theThird International Music Festival forContemporary Music in Leningrad, which he attendedas a guest of the Soviet Composers Union...
BROTHERS AND SISTERS. The most acclaimed Soviet stage work since World War II, this two-part epic from Leningrad depicts Stalin's abuse of the rural millions. In Russian, with simultaneous translation through earphones, at San Diego's Old Globe...
...break an Azerbaijani blockade of Armenia. But after a dramatic all- night debate, legislators in the Supreme Soviet did what not so long ago was unthinkable. They rebuffed the strike proposal as "unconstitutional" and voted instead to put strict limits only on work stoppages that affect critical industries. Said Leningrad Deputy Anatoli Sobchak, a reformist: "We just spent a couple days in the school of democracy. And all the talk led somewhere...