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AUTHOR, MYRON RUSH SUGGESTS THAT--VIABLE BUT VULNERABLE, THE SOVIET UNION WAS HOSTAGE TO BAD FORTUNE. THAT THE REFORMS GORBACHEV ADOPTED WERE NOT THE RESULT OF A NECESSITY IMPOSED ON THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP BY THE THREAT OF THE REGIME'S IMMINENT COLLAPSE, NOT WAS IT DUE TO PRESSURES EMERGING FROM SOCIETY WHEREBY DISGRUNTLED WORKERS AND A REFORMIST INTELLIGENTIAS IMPOSED THEIR WILL ON THE LEADERSHIP. HE SUGGESTS THAT THE SOVIET UNION SUCCUMBED TO ILL-CONCEIVED REFORMS ORIGINATING IN THE LEADERSHIP, TO POOR GOVERNANCE, AND TO BAD FORTUNE.

Since politics among the top Soviet leaders is vigilantly screened from outsiders, serious studies must be based on indirect evidence. Analysis of published hidden messages provides a major source of such evidence, since esoteric communication has a key role in contention over high policy & questions of power in the USSR For example, in 1955 publication of a telegram which incorrectly addressed Khrushchev with Stalin's famous title of `general secretary', when analyzed in conjunction with related evidence, enaged the inference to be drawn that Khrushchev was bidding for dictorial power. Subsequent events have tended to confirm this hypo. IPSA.