 Her essay ' ('; variously translated in English commentary) was published in the newspaper "Sovetskaya Rossiya" on March 13, 1988, at a time when Gorbachev and Alexander Yakovlev were abroad, and cited an anti-Gorbachev report by the secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, Yegor Ligachev.Conservative party officials welcomed the essay, whereas supporters of Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin feared that it represented a major threat for them.Gorbachev subsequently revealed that many members of the Politburo seemed to share Andreyeva's views, and that he had to coerce them into approving the publication of an official rejoinder.