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	Yegor Ligachev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev (Его́р Кузьми́ч Лигачёв) (born November 29, 1920) was a Soviet politician.
		Ligachev had been first secretary of the party in Tomsk, Siberia when he was discovered by Yuri Andropov and brought to Moscow to become head of the Central Committee's Department for Organizational Party Work.
		In 1990 Ligachev criticized Gorbachev for establishing a Soviet Presidency as a means of circumventing the party and also argued that glasnost had gone too far and that press freedoms should be curtailed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yegor_Ligachev (329 words)

	From Comrade to Critic in Five Years - New York Times
		Ligachev was a central figure in the maneuvering that brought Mikhail S. Gorbachev to the helm of the Soviet state in 1985 and his first ally in the process of renewal that came to be known as perestroika.
		Ligachev was already the estranged scourge of "radicals" and "pseudodemocrats," crying in a deepening political wilderness that his Gorbachev and his perestroika had been hijacked and perverted.
		Ligachev recounts the powerful effect of an article by the veteran America watcher Georgy A. Arbatov in 1975 in which he argued that the United States had succumbed to an "enormous overestimation of the role of computers in management." That, writes Mr.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE1DB103AF932A15751C0A965958260 (675 words)

	Amazon.ca: Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin: Books: Yegor Ligachev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Spearheaded by glasnost and in turn by Yakovlev's strategic editorial appointments, the press, according to Ligachev, engaged in a destabilizing propaganda campaign: "A dictatorship of destructive forces reigned in the mass media.
		Ligachev has frequently been described by the Western press as a conservative opponent of Mikhail Gorbachev and his perestroika reforms.
		These memoirs cover the period from 1983 (when Ligachev was transferred from a Siberia posting to a senior position in Moscow) until 1989, when he had become disenchanted and gone into opposition.
	www.amazon.ca /Inside-Gorbachevs-Kremlin-Yegor-Ligachev/dp/0679413928 (452 words)

	Yegor Ligachev
		Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev was a high-ranking official of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union who rose to prominence during the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev but disagreed with many of Gorbachev's economic reform plans.
		Ligachev was born on Nov 29, 1920 in Dubinkino, on Russia's Siberian plain.
		Ligachev was able to retain a degree of influence until July 1990, when he was ousted from the Politburo as reformist forces became dominant.
	www.fortunecity.com /boozers/ferret/451/profiles/yligache.htm (408 words)

	TIME.com: Soviet Union Clash of the Comrades -- May 2, 1988 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ligachev embodied the critical backlash against the new openness, which has brought freer discussion of abuses in Soviet society today and the brutal repression of the Stalin era.
		As the party's ideological watchdog, Ligachev strongly believed that this relaxation was becoming a dangerous weapon in the hands of anti-Soviet forces, as well as a destabilizing force within the country.
		What apparently spurred Ligachev into open criticism was the unprecedented accounts in the Soviet press of the excesses of the Stalin era, which had been largely hidden from the public for decades.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,149164,00.html (1316 words)

	Biography of Yegor Kuz'mich Ligachev \| Life of Yegor Kuz'mich Ligachev
		Yegor Kuz'mich Ligachev (born 1920) was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union beginning in 1966.
		Ligachev's central role in the "Yeltsin Affair" is treated by Bialer also in U.S. News and World Report (March 28, 1988).
		New Perspectives Quarterly (Summer 1988) contains an interesting interview with Ligachev in which he affirms that he and Gorbachev "are on the same wave length." Yegor Ligachev's final attempts to oppose Gorbachev are published in his unabridged bookThe Memoirs of Yegor Ligachev: Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin(1993) Introduction by Stephen F. Cohen.
	www.essayboom.com /biographies/Yegor_Kuzmich_Ligachev-34922.html (205 words)

	Westview Books
		Ligachev outlines the political agenda of today’s communist coalition—the establishment of a new Soviet Union, with strong economic and political integration of its member-states.
		Yegor Ligachev, a seasoned Party boss from Siberia, made a solid career for himself in the capital during the Khrushchev era, but, following Khrushchev’s ouster, chose to retreat to the provinces.
		Ligachev writes before the passions have cooled, his perceptions can still be viewed in all their authentic ambivalence and emotion.
	www.perseusbooksgroup.com /westview/book_detail.jsp?isbn=081332887X (456 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Republic of Armenia Official Site
		Yegor Ligachev, the Communist Party propaganda chief who ranks second only to Mikhail S. Gorbachev, told a special conference of senior media and propaganda officials that Soviet opponents are changing and unifying their tactics, the Tass news agency said.
		Ligachev did not identify the opponents he was talking about.
		Ligachev, who is thought to take a more cautious approach than Gorbachev to some reforms, also cautioned the media officials and propagandists against taking Gorbachev's policy of Glasnost, or greater openness, too far.
	www.armeniaforeignministry.com /fr/nk/nk_file/article/35.html (301 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Russia Special Report
		It came only hours after President Mikhail Gorbachev's most prominent hard-line rival, Yegor Ligachev, was defeated in a bid to win the post of deputy party leader.
		Nearly half of the members of the party's ruling Politburo, including Ligachev, have been dropped from the list of candidates for the Central Committee, which sets party policy in the four-to-five year intervals between congresses.
		Ligachev was not included on the list of Central Committee candidates nominated by party leaders from the 15 republics and the central leadership, meaning that he will have to give up his post as the party secretary overseeing agriculture.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/russiagov/stories/quits071390.htm (1116 words)

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		Some of the top personnel changes we have already touched upon, particularly the elevation of Yegor Ligachev to the position of Gorbachev's second-in-command at the April plenary meeting of the Central Committee.
		Yegor Liga-chev deserves special mention here, as he was to play an important, if largely negative, role in the perestroika years.
		Interestingly, Gorbachev does not say a single word in his memoirs about his reasons for Romanov's expulsion, stating baldly that he frankly suggested to the man that "there was no place for him in the leadership." Romanov "wept a little, but eventually accepted" his fate, becoming a non-person overnight.
	english.mn.ru /english/printver.php?2004-20-11 (1291 words)

	Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was promoted to these high-rank positions by Mikhail Gorbachev and Yegor Ligachev who presumed that Yeltsin would be "their man".
		In 1987, after a confrontation with hardliner Yegor Ligachev and eventually with Mikhail Gorbachev about Gorbachev's wife, Raisa, meddling in affairs of the state, Yeltsin was sacked from his high-ranking party positions.
		The conflict exacerbated on March 20, 1992 when Yeltsin, in a televised address to the nation, announced that he was going to assume certain "special powers" in order to implement his program of reforms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boris_Yeltsin (4002 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		On the contrary, with the avid assistance of the Soviet and foreign media, Ligachev was made into an unwitting instrument in the general secretary’s efforts to cultivate society’s sympathies and to pressure the apparat to demonstrate publicly that it was not anti-perestroika.
		Ligachev moans that for a long time he missed the significance of the Secretariat’s September 1988 “reorganization.” But even after seeing through Gorbachev’s camouflage, Ligachev shrank from raising the matter at subsequent Politburo meetings.
		Because Ligachev shared Gorbachev’s belief in the necessity and possibility of energizing the system, he refuses to concede that it was precisely perestroika that precipitated the system’s demise or even that the blame lay with the man he helped put in power.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol6num4/constitutional.html (13561 words)

	Fond 89 and the Fall of the Soviet Union by Gordan Hahn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ligachev attacked Gorbachev's establishment of the Soviet presidency, a mechanism Gorbachev created to circumvent the hard-line party apparat.
		Ligachev and KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, who would lead the August 1991 coup, argued that glasnost had gotten out of hand and demanded tight control of the party press, particularly the newspapers Pravda and Izvestiya.
		This appointment presaged Ligachev's downfall at the party congress in July, where Ligachev was defeated and retired.
	www.hooverdigest.org /981/hahn.html (1542 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Opposition to Gorbachev Reported
		Yegor K. Ligachev, reputedly a conservative force on the Politburo, got the most "no" votes of any Politburo member, 78, according to Pravda.
		Politburo member Viktor P. Nikonov, who serves as deputy to Ligachev in the latter's role as chief of the party's commission on agriculture, received 26 "no" votes.
		Along with Gorbachev, the Politburo members who received the widest support were Nikolai N. Slyunkov, chief of the party's commission on social and economic policy, with 19 votes opposed, and former KGB chief Viktor M. Chebrikov, with 13 opposed.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=138473 (446 words)

	All Power to the Soviets
		To convince the apparatchiks that the term "vanguard" has not become an empty one, it may have been necessary to bestow on the party the leadership of the soviets, preserving at the same time its control over key appointments of cadres (though the size of this nomenklatura will inevitably be cut by the reforms).
		The idea of a compromise was strengthened by the performance at the conference of Yegor Ligachev, generally viewed as expressing the interests and apprehensions of the party apparatus.
		Ligachev's speech, on the last day of the conference, was full of surprises.
	www.thenation.com /doc/19880730/singer (1836 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Book Review - Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin - Yegor Ligachev
		Ligachev, at the outset a supporter of Gorbachev and his plans to reform the sclerosed Soviet system, became a conservative Cassandra warning of the dangers in what he saw as the excesses of perestroika: an unfettered press, the weakening of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as an effective political instrument, and the like.
		Ligachev defends with stubborn rectitude the case that he doubtless made during the last six years of Soviet power.
		Better yet, he describes the inside power struggle over what perestroika was to be, which, in his version, has Alexander Yakovlev playing the role of the devil.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /19930601fabook5362/yegor-ligachev/inside-gorbachev-s-kremlin.html (265 words)

	Free Elections in Soviet Union
		Ligachev had fallen out of Gorbachev's favor after engineering the publication of a neo-Stalinist counter-reform manifesto, and giving a speech on foreign policy that reflected the ideas of disgraced former general secretary Leonid Brezhnev.
		Yeltsin defeated Ligachev after campaigning on unorthodox ideas such as eradication of certain party privileges and greater political pluralism.
		He was ousted in November, 1987, after a bitter public debate with Yegor Ligachev, his opponent.
	www.forerunner.com /forerunner/X0663_Free_Elections_in_So.html (1889 words)

	PIVOT: Chapter One of RUSSIA REDUX by Gwendolyn Stewart
		Yeltsin and Ligachev had clashed; Yeltsin was ousted.
		Ligachev was trounced in the vote for deputy General Secretary, garnering only 776 votes to Ivashko's 3,109.
		Less than half a year after the triumph of ridding himself for good of Ligachev, the old hard-liner, Gorbachev was to invite a new crew of hard-liners into his government.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~gestewar/pivot.html (6929 words)

	Article 18 * Perestroika: A Marxist Critique [Sam Marcy]
		The capitalist press has regarded Yegor Ligachev as second in command and the leading "conservative" in the Party.
		If a strike is in progress and there's a difference of opinion over whether to terminate or continue it, it would be wrong for the local union executive board or president to appoint someone to take responsibility for terminating the strike whose conviction is in the direction of continuing it.
		It is wrong for Ligachev to have taken the post of agriculture minister at this time if he is in favor of intensifying socialist agriculture but has to carry out an opposite policy.
	www.workers.org /marcy/perestroika/18.html (3193 words)

	TIME.com: Soviet Union Curbing Glasnost -- Oct. 5, 1987 -- Page 1
		One of the most outspoken critics has been Yegor Ligachev, the second-ranking Communist Party leader in the Politburo, who has followed up nearly every official nod toward openness with an admonition of restraint.
		So there was little surprise last week when reports surfaced in the West that Ligachev had publicly attacked glasnost yet again.
		Indeed, according to some Soviet experts, Ligachev's naysaying may simply be a way of keeping the new freedoms within bounds.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,965675,00.html (500 words)

	The Search for Socialist Pluralism: Gorbachev's Vision of the Future
		The second stage of Gorbachev's "revolution" saw the General Secretary's mysteriously long vacation and the resurgence of the center right in the speeches of the defacto second secretary Yegor Ligachev and KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov in the early fall.
		The attack of the conservatives reached a crescendo at the October plenum and led to the dismissal of the Moscow party chief Boris Yeltsin, the radical and outspoken supporter of reform.
		On December 4, Ligachev stated that he, and not the General Secretary, chaired meetings of the Central Committee's Secretariat.
	www.heritage.org /Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/HL155.cfm (4337 words)

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	Inside Gorbachevs Kremlin by Yegor Ligachev and Stephen F. Cohen and E. K. Ligachev : Booksamillion.com (081332887X, ...
		Inside Gorbachevs Kremlin by Yegor Ligachev and Stephen F. Cohen and E. Ligachev : Booksamillion.com (081332887X, Hardcover)
		The credibility of memoirs, unlike fiction, depends on the biography and character of the author.
		Yegor Ligachev has written the first real political memoirs of the fateful Gorbachev years, which may have brought Soviet history to an end and changed world politics forever.
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	MUSIC: Frankophilia - academic conference on Frank Sinatra at Hofstra University - Brief Article National Review - Find ...
		One morning when I was in college, not long after the USSR crumbled, my Residential Advisor informed me that a certain Yegor Ligachev was visiting the campus and wanted to see what an American student's room looked like.
		Comrade Yegor would have been bewildered by an academic conference held this past month at Long Island's Hofstra University dedicated to Sinatra's life and legend.
		The place was packed with Frankophiles (average age: 55; average no. of Sinatra albums: same), the kind of people who would never, ever, walk out on a Sinatra tune.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_1998_Dec_21/ai_53369105 (824 words)

	Amazon.com: Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin: The Memoirs of Yegor Ligachev: Books: E. K. Ligachev,Stephen F. Cohen,Catherine ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ligachev, Stephen F. Cohen (Introduction), Catherine A. Fitzpatrick (Translator), Michele A. Berdy (Translator), Dobrochna Dyrcz-Freeman (Translator), Marian Schwartz (Translator) "For decades, the foreign press has written about the "secrets of the Kremlin " including under this rubric the process of decisionmaking at the highest..." (more)
		For decades, the foreign press has written about the "secrets of the Kremlin " including under this rubric the process of decisionmaking at the highest level of the Soviet political leadership as well as the battle among advocates of different views of development and among top politicians aspiring to leadership.
		Central Committee, Communist Party, Tbilisi Affair, Yegor Kuzmich, Supreme Soviet, Congress of People's Deputies, Party Congress, Council of Ministers, Mikhail Sergeyevich, Organization Department, Soviet Union, Nina Andreyeva, Tomsk Province, Old Square, Prosecutor's Office, United States, Sovetskaya Rossiya, Gdlyan Affair, Lake Baikal, Alexander Yakovlev, Moscow News, Comrade Yakovlev, Eastern Europe, Konstantin Ustinovich, Yasnaya Polyana
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