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It is not that he ignored the issue; his aides Shevardnadze, Chernyaev, and Yakovlev badgered him to make more concessions, while Ligachev and Kryuchkov pressed for a tougher stance.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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From early on, Chernyaev, Yakovlev, even Medvedev and Georgy Shakhnazarov were pressing Gorbachev to coopt Yeltsin rather than attack him, to abandon the party and form an independent base of support in the state, to side with the democrats against bloodthirsty hard-liners, and to offer the Baltic separatists some civilized, realistic path to greater autonomy.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Chernyaev counseled him at the time to keep Yeltsin on as Moscow party chief.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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In a lucid moment of despair, Gorbachev told his faithful aide Chernyaev: “All revolutions end in failure, although they change the country, and some—the whole world.”
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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From early on, Chernyaev, Yakovlev, even Medvedev and Georgy Shakhnazarov were pressing Gorbachev to coopt Yeltsin rather than attack him, to abandon the party and form an independent base of support in the state, to side with the democrats against bloodthirsty hard-liners, and to offer the Baltic separatists some civilized, realistic path to greater autonomy.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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It is not that he ignored the issue; his aides Shevardnadze, Chernyaev, and Yakovlev badgered him to make more concessions, while Ligachev and Kryuchkov pressed for a tougher stance.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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“In the end,” writes Chernyaev, “it was emotions, fear of risk, and an unwillingness to break with the old ways of ruling that won out.”
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Ultimately, says Chernyaev, his closest, most loyal aide but also his most perceptive critic, it came down to just hope, which the people had long entertained, irrational and confused.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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In a lucid moment of despair, Gorbachev told his faithful aide Chernyaev: “All revolutions end in failure, although they change the country, and some—the whole world.”
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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In July 1990, after an afternoon of being crudely abused by provincial party hacks, Gorbachev exploded in front of Chernyaev.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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