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...normally fidgety students were riveted when Moscow history teacher Andrei Isayev turned the tables on the Russian Revolution. Isayev first took down all the pictures of Lenin in his tenth-grade classroom. Then he told his students that the 1917 Revolution, which had been taught for decades as holy writ, was not so glorious as their government-issued textbooks had portrayed it. The students proved to be fast learners. "Lenin was a dark personality," one of Isayev's pupils says, when a Western visitor asks him about the founder of the modern Soviet state. He made "big mistakes" and caused...
MEMOIRS by Andrei Gromyko; Doubleday; 414 pages...
...purest specimens of the spongelike species that plunged into extinction is Andrei Gromyko, the perennial Foreign Minister who worked with every Soviet leader from Stalin to Gorbachev and conveniently died last year as he fell from grace. Revealingly, his book is relentlessly unrevealing. Of the dermatologist's nightmare that was Stalin's pockmarked face, Gromyko writes, "I don't recall ever seeing any" scars...
...force against the Baltic states. A senior Soviet diplomat says of the Baltics, "Of course they can choose independence. But the laws have to be observed, and they must keep in mind that they will have to pay a heavy economic price." In Paris last month, Gorbachev's adviser Andrei Grachev said if Lithuanians cannot be convinced that it is in their interest to remain in a new federation, "they make the decision, and no one can prevent them from fulfilling it." Says the Carnegie Endowment's Dimitri Simes: "During the Civil War, there were strong imperial patriots who made...
...emerging Soviet policy cuts back expensive military commitments in favor of cheaper political solutions, with Moscow exhorting Third World allies to adopt glasnost- and perestroika-style reforms. "The Third World," says Andrei Kozyrev, a senior Soviet Foreign Ministry official, "suffers not so much from capitalism as from a lack of it." What this means for Moscow's Asian, African and Middle Eastern clients is a drying up of crucial economic and military funds -- and a shift in their own attitudes...