Word: bolshoi
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...class" but no more than a vanguard. Lenin's more open-minded opponents wanted to take in any and all supporters, find partners and make coalitions. Lenin, as usual, insisted on getting his way, and he got it. With their majority, the Leninists took the name of Bolshevik, after bolshoi, big. The smaller group was called Mensheviks (minority...
TELEVISION ACQUAINTANCE. Backstage squabbling at the Bolshoi: intrepid Estonian journalist Urmas Ott gets to the bottom of it during a revealing 90- minute interview with prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya...
...over the Soviet military and the KGB. Now we publish everything that we can vouch for, which is how it should be. That is how Ogonyok's stories on the crimes of Stalin and modern corruption originated. That is how we examine such things as the decline of the Bolshoi Ballet, the rise of nonparty organizations in the Baltic republics, the problems of the poor and attempts to use anti-Semitism to restore a dictatorship of fear...
...Gorbachev's new prominence to both glasnost and her % natural self-confidence. But not all Soviets approve of Raisa's high profile. Groused one Muscovite: "What is the meaning of Raisa this, Raisa that? Am I supposed to live like she does?" At a televised celebration at the Bolshoi Theater after her speech, it was clear that she has not totally broken the traditional mold of Soviet leaders' spouses. Mikhail Gorbachev sat on the dais, while Raisa watched from the audience...
...Soviet p.r. blitz has also had an impact at the other end of the Eurasian landmass, in South Korea. The South Koreans were ecstatic that even though Moscow and Seoul have no diplomatic relations, the U.S.S.R. sent its team to the Olympics in September and the Bolshoi Ballet to an arts festival. South Korean officials give Moscow credit for using its clout in North Korea to keep the militant Communist regime there from starting a new war on the peninsula. With a mild wave of anti-Americanism sweeping South Korea these days, there is no question that the Soviets...