Zimbabwe: the southern African setting

capable of ensuring the democratic organisation of public life while preserving the Soviet organisation of society and the oneparty system? Yes or no? And if so, how?' Professor Abalkin insisted on the need for ensuring the widest possible plurality of opinions, but rejected the plurality of power in the shape of opposing parties. A critic of Abalkin 's speech went deeper and argued that the people are not to be spurred by the promise to add a bit to their wages, but that what is needed to eradicate the spiritual and moral decline is a programme of great works which would motivate the people and spur them to unprecedented accomplishments. Gorbachev himself constantly emphasises the spiritual and moral aspects of perestroika. And it may be for this reason that he has, somewhat cautiously, recalled the Russian Orthodox church into public life on the occasion of the millennium of Christianity in the three Eastern Slav Lands: Byelorussia, Russia and the Ukraine . And a church that can celebrate the oc-