Soviet Union
Glasnost under
threat
THE struggle over perestroika - restructuring the cconomy and the state - is hotting up in the Soviet Union. While Gorbachev isshowing growing impatience with the speed of the implementing the perestroika reforms in the economy, there is increasing evidence that the 'Moscow Spring' of glasnost may be short-lived.
During Gorbachev's Black Sen summer holiday, his leading critic in the Polithuro, Yigor Ligachev, atilised the opportunity to make a detailed speech in the city of Gorky which almost amounted to counter-manifesto