Time Magazine Contents Page

COVER STORIES

18

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: Serfdom's End

A thousand years of autocracy are reversed )

UPHEAVAL: Gorbachev buries the Communist Party

THE KGB AND THE ARMY: The future will bring drastic change

COUP POSTMORTEM: How Yeltsin unhinged the hijacking

THE WHITE HOUSE: Bush learns to love the Russian president

INTERNATIONAL FALLOUT: What the West can do

THE ORIGINS: The prelude to the putsch against Gorbachev

RISING STAR: Is Boris good enough for Russia?

INTERVIEW The Archbishop of Canterbury on God, gays and hostages

12

BUSINESS B.C.C.I. was as much a weapons merchant as a bank

56

HEALTH Preach chastity or offer condoms? How to save teens from AIDS 60

SCIENCE The Big Bang theory is under fire but not yet exploded

62

EDUCATION School ought to last much longer for U.S. kids

64

LAW In Tulsa young offenders get a dose of squad-car medicine

65

FOOD Eat your celery! It may help save your life 66

BOOKS A new novel asks who wrote the book of life 68

FASHION Homespun denim is puttin' on the ritz 71

THEATER Why Broadway's Big Three musicals may just run forever

72

DEPARTMENTS

GRAPEVINE 17

LETTERS 8 MILESTONES 63

CRITICS' VOICES 10 PEOPLE 74

Photograph for TIME by Robert Wallis -- SIPA Press