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Article: Communism's new deal: Gorbachev's party is divided but it remains in command. (Mikhail Gorbachev, Communist Party, and the Soviet Union; includes article on George Bush and U.S.-Soviet relations)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- July 29, 1991
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Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is proving himself a master of summitry-first at a meeting last April with the leaders of his own country's fractious republics, then at the London economic summit last week and now in scheduling a hurry-up meeting with President Bush in Moscow next week. But Gorbachev is also the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and as such he is the uncertain master of a house divided.
Gorbachev's party, which once prided itself on being "one and indivisible," is under siege. Although still 16 million strong, the party is hemorrhaging as the dispirited leave, the opportunists bail out and the promising politicians, ...