1. Prelude to a putsch.
- Author
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Talbott, S.
- Subjects
GOVERNMENT agencies ,DECENTRALIZATION in government ,PERESTROIKA ,SOVIET Union economic policy, 1986-1991 ,POLITICAL attitudes - Abstract
Suggests that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, in his attempt to break the ministries' stranglehold on the economy, made decentralization one of the cornerstones of perestroika, creating conditions around the country for popular local leaders to defeat Moscow's minions. Actions of Interior Minister Boris Pugo and the Baltics; War in the Persian Gulf; Reformers and loyalists. INSET: Dancing with wolves (biographies of the Gang of Eight)..
- Published
- 1991