Nikolai Ryzhkov: "Brezhnevite," Dengist, or "Titoite"?

[Die Neue Zeit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Ryzhkov


In post-Soviet Russia he is a member of the State Duma, and still promotes communist values and beliefs.

In December 1995 he was elected to the new Russian Duma from the Power to the People block and in 1996 became a leader of the left wing Peoples' Power faction in the Duma. In the late 1990s he participated in the Communist-led alliance of leftists and nationalists known as People's Patriotic Union of Russia.
In September 2003 entered the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation as a representative from Belgorod Oblast, and subsequently resigned his seat in the Duma. Currently serves as a chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Natural Monopolies, member of the Committee on Local Self-Governance, co-chairman of the Russian-Armenian commission on inter-parliamentary cooperation.

What to make of Gorbachev's one-time Soviet premier? A new "Brezhnevite"? A Dengist? Or a "Titoite"?

[In any event, he's probably one of the saner heads in the CPRF with regards to nationalism.]

[Kiev Communard]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Ryzhkov



What to make of Gorbachev's one-time Soviet premier? A new "Brezhnevite"? A Dengist? Or a "Titoite"?

[In any event, he's probably one of the saner heads in the CPRF with regards to nationalism.]

Definitely a Dengist. During Perestroika he contributed to such "reforms" as establishment of floating prices which led to the drastic fall in living standards and defended "socialist competition". In the 1990s he directly co-operated with nascent Russian bourgeoisie, serving as a CEO of Tver Universal Bank until 1998, and since that time he has been chairing a Russian Union of Commodity Producers, the name whereof speaks volumes about its purpose :D. Basically now he denounces Russian oligopolies as "trampling upon the middle entrepreneurs", so in the sense of the economic policies he is a typical "Third Way" man.

[sanpal]

Hm, what could mean the word 'Dengist'? From the russian word Dengi (money)? Something like Monetarist?

Seems he aroused a sympathy of some people because he does / did his work honestly according that or other political period. In the USSR he worked well as "Brezhnevite". With Gorby he tried to transform soviet economy into "market socialism" as Titoite. . After Gorby's period he worked as a typical 'Dengist' and social-democrat. In my opinion he had not participated in pillage of socialist property in the period of initial accumulation of capital as another non-honest new russian bourgeoisie but used his great experience of "nomenclaturnyi rabotnic".

It is my opinion only.

[Jose Gracchus]

Dengist as in a supporter of the politics of Deng Xiaoping, father of modern Chinese capitalism, however cloaked in red drapes.

[sanpal]

Dengist as in a supporter of the politics of Deng Xiaoping, father of modern Chinese capitalism, however cloaked in red drapes.

Thanks for clarifying, consider my previous post as deleted.

[Die Neue Zeit]

Basically now he denounces Russian oligopolies as "trampling upon the middle entrepreneurs", so in the sense of the economic policies he is a typical "Third Way" man.

And nowadays he looks like that interventionist scumbag Lothar Bisky from Die Linke. :lol: