Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...speaks with Leonid Abalkin, Gorbachev's topadvisor on economic reform. He speaks with AnatolySobchak, a reformist Leningrad deputy. Moreinteresting, perhaps, is his afternoon with NinaAndreyevna, who gained nationwide notoriety as aGorbachev critic, an advocate of the Stalinistcommand system...
...protested in public and largely to ignore the disaffected millions of Soviet citizens who went through the motions of their jobs while seething with resentment. That "hidden constituency" for reform even included young Communist Party officials who saw that the society was as decrepit as its bemedaled leader, Leonid Brezhnev...
...late 1934, Leonid Nikolayev, a disgruntled ex-Bolshevik, showed up outside the Smolny Institute in Leningrad, where Kirov's office was located. Nikolayev was arrested, probably because he looked suspicious. He was searched and found to be carrying a gun. Yet he was set free. The only conclusion is that he was released on orders from higher-ups in the same organization who had sent him to commit a terrorist act. A short time afterward, Nikolayev penetrated Smolny and shot Kirov as he was coming up the stairway. Kirov's bodyguard had lagged behind...
...this a government program or criticism of the alternative plan that we have yet to hear?" Armenian Deputy Genrikh Igityan was even more brutal. "I have sympathy with you," he said, tvurning to Ryzhkov, "but are you capable of bringing this country out of crisis?" Ryzhkov, said worker Leonid Sukhov, would "certainly have to step down." Nikolai Ivanov, the controversial public prosecutor and Kremlin gadfly, went even further. Gorbachev, he said, would also have...
After the stormy parliamentary session, Ryzhkov and a grim-looking Deputy Prime Minister Leonid Abalkin hinted that disaster would result if the Shatalin plan were approved without changes. Abalkin warned that trying an unsuccessful form of "shock treatment" might leave "the populace and the government allergic to the market idea for decades." Ryzhkov expressed concern that by giving free rein to market forces, the Gorbachev-Yeltsin group plan might set off a "staggering surge of prices, destabilize economic life and disorient enterprises...