Word: brezhnevian
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...longer are we confronted by a Brezhnevian Soviet Union waiting to pounce. Through the Intermediate Nuclear Force agreement (INF) and Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), the United States and the Soviet Union have begun to pursue the most logical path out of the Cold War--disarmament...
...growth area for forgery today is the work of the Russian avant-garde -- Rodchenko, Popova, Larionov, Lissitsky, Malevich -- which, as a result of perestroika, is coming on the market in some quantity after 60 years of Stalinist-Brezhnevian repression. Prices are zooming, and authentication is thin. Sotheby's held a Russian sale in London in April 1989. It contained, according to some scholars, two outright fakes ascribed to Liubov Popova and one dubious picture, badly restored and signed on the front -- something Popova never did with her oil paintings. Doubts about the authenticity of these works were voiced...
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