Progress, Soviet style. (poor prospects for arresting the Soviet system's downward slide)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: June 3, 1991| Author: | Copyright information

* PROGRESS, Soviet Style. The West seems to be breathing easier these days about events in Moscow. And why not? Isn't the impulse toward democracy once again in evidence? Hasn't Mikhail Gorbachev returned to the path of meaningful economic reform? In reality, the prospects of arresting the Soviet system's downward slide remain poor-and are getting worse.

Gorbachev's truce with Boris Yeltsin and other leaders of Soviet republics, as well as the June 19 election of Russia's first president, are being hailed in Western capitals as signs of democratic progress. The applause is ...

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