Certainly energy companies now face a potentially implacable foe and a re-energized, increasingly hostile bureaucratic apparat.

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He despised the whole Soviet apparat in part because its minions prevented him from associating with ordinary Russians when he was stationed in Moscow.

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In co-opting the rhetoric of the Soviet dissident movement of the 1970s, and calling public attention to deep dissatisfactions within Soviet society, Gorbachev has sought to purge the bureaucracy and has unleashed what can only be frightening social forces from the standpoint of the Politburo and the senior apparat forces that he would claim only he can control.

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In co-opting the rhetoric of the Soviet dissident movement of the 1970s, and calling public attention to deep dissatisfactions within Soviet society, Gorbachev has sought to purge the bureaucracy and has unleashed what can only be frightening social forces from the standpoint of the Politburo and the senior apparat -- forces that he would claim only he can control.

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