Word: communisme
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Joyous songs resonated on streets while strangers shared the kisses and hugs of the victory. But the euphoria of those moments was short-lived. While mothers were still wiping the tears from their eyes, the wreckage of Communism was brought to light, slowly changing the smiles into grimaces...
...siecle mind-set in his definitive book Century's End. Schwartz was writing in 1988 and looking forward to a bang-up final decade. Indeed, the 1990s got off to a respectable fin-de-siecle start, what with the Gulf War and the fall of communism, the L.A. riots, even the apocalyptic rhetoric of the Republican revolution. But in the two years since Oklahoma City, the rough edges of the national psyche seem to have been sanded down a bit, as if we'd taken a collective dose of lithium. The economy is performing nicely, crime is down...
Latin America is making progress in politics and economics. Fears of communism are disappearing. The U.S. government should help the region by bringing more democracy, more liberty and more peace, not by selling weapons that can lead to more violence and an arms race. I hope the U.S. will be guided not by profit motives but by higher ideals. HIROYUKI ANDO Shizuoka, Japan...
Since then two developments have fostered the spread of cultism. One is the end of communism. Whatever the disasters of Marxism, at least it provided an outlet for utopian longings. Now that universalist impulses have one less way to expend themselves, religious enthusiasms of whatever character take on a fresh appeal. And even Russia, with a rich tradition of fevered spirituality and the new upheavals of capitalism, is dealing with modern cults...
...depict Russia's course as it stumbled and slid from a moribund Brezhnev to a self-promoting Kryuchkov--and possibly a moribund Boris Yeltsin. Dobbs' report, Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire (Knopf; 502 pages; $30), carries the still astonishing story of the fall of communism, from the rise of Solidarity in Poland in 1980 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Remnick's book, Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia (Random House; 398 pages; $25.95), picks up the tale in 1991 and brings it through Yeltsin's white-knuckle re-election last...