Word: bialer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...field. Assistant Picture Editor Michele Stephenson and Researcher Julia Richer culled 50,000 photographs. Tom Bentkowski produced the issue's special design. For guidance in their Stakhanovite labors, the staff could turn to TIME Soviet Specialist Patricia Blake-who wrote the Books story on Russian fiction-and Seweryn Bialer, professor of political science at Columbia University, who served as consultant...
...hallmark of the Brezhnev leadership has been to combine an expansive foreign policy, a formidable military buildup and a period of sustained domestic political stability. Says Columbia's Bialer: "I see the 1960s and '70s as a very benign period in Soviet history. It is quite possible that future historians will say this was the greatest, the best period in their history. It was a society that for the first time was able to provide both guns and butter, to raise the standard of living a bit, and to reach military equality with the West. They had many problems...
...than a touch of wishful thinking in their speculation, predict that the U.S.S.R. will come apart along its Muslim seams in the south and east. Others, including National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, also look for trouble in Eastern Europe, particularly in Brzezinski's native Poland. Columbia University's Seweryn Bialer agrees. Until now, he says, the Soviets have been fortunate that uprisings have broken out in only one country at a time in Eastern Europe?East Germany, 1953; Hungary, 1956; Czechoslovakia, 1968. "They will not be so lucky in the '80s," he predicts...
...wake of the Soviet thrust into Afghanistan, against a backdrop of the Kremlin's continuing nuclear and conventional military buildup, the U.S. must redefine its role in the world and especially its relationship with the U.S.S.R. Columbia's Soviet affairs specialist Seweryn Bialer fears "the worst possible situation is when the U.S.S.R. feels that it has nothing to fear from the U.S. and nothing to hope for from the U.S." In the current situation, Bialer urges that "the Soviets should have more to fear from us than they...