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Carrillo's U.S. visit climaxes a series of image-building junkets. In Moscow for the 60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, he got a much publicized snub from the Kremlin leaders, who decided-after looking at his prepared text-that they could not fit him into the speaking schedule. This only burnished his sought-after image of independence. Said one diplomat in Madrid: "The Russians were booby-trapped. Carrillo came out looking like a stalwart democrat...
...60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, and representatives from the Communist and Socialist parties of no fewer than 104 countries were on hand in Moscow to help the Soviets celebrate their three score years in power. Present for the party, probably the biggest in Moscow's history, were such Communist all-stars as Hungary's Janos Kadar, Poland's Edward Gierek and East Germany's Erich Honecker. In the Kremlin's starkly modern Palace of Congresses, President Leonid Brezhnev rose to keynote the festivities with a 90-minute report on the state of the Soviet...
...still thought of as a paradox that the home of the Bolshevik Revolution is much more an empire now than it was under the Czars. The sun never sets upon it. Says Dimitri Simes, director of Soviet policy studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "A great diplomatic problem for the U.S. is that we often perceive Russia as an ideological, revolutionary state, which it is not." Beneath the vast surface of the Soviet Union, Simes argues, three elements have struggled...
...discussed in factories, collective farms, offices and schools all over the U.S.S.R. Possibly in a slightly altered form, but without substantive changes, the text will almost certainly be approved by the Supreme Soviet, the nation's rubber-stamp parliament, in time for the 60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution next November...
...material well-being to Soviet citizens. The old constitution also ensured a wide range of freedoms -press, assembly, religion and speech. As it happened, the 1936 constitution was adopted just as Stalin began his Great Purges, which cost 1 million lives, including that of the document's author, Bolshevik Leader Nikolai Bukharin. The new model not only reiterates most of the old guarantees but also promises Soviet citizens the right to have a house, income and savings, livestock and an assortment of "articles of everyday use and personal consumption and convenience." It enlarges freedoms to include the inviolability...