Word: communisme
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Barnes sees communism, as practiced in the Soviet Union and its former satellites "as a corruption of a set of principles, at base idealistic which went wrong." he recalls being impressed by Gunter Grass's essays, "Two States-One Nation?) which, although enormously popular during the euphoria which accompanied the unification of Germany, were eerily prescient, foretelling the economic and social troubles which are now plaguing that country...
...concrete landscape in a bleak terrain. Behind communism's illusions there always lurked a chilling soullessness. From an unlimited expanse of possibility, the horizon of Russia's future has shrunk to a prefabricated emptiness devoid of assurance that things may one day change for the better...
...this week's issue to a special report on the New Russia. "The former Soviet Union's fate is still critically important to America and the rest of the world," says senior editor Johanna McGeary, who oversaw the project. "The threat this time comes from instability rather than communism...
...seems incomprehensible. Less than three years after declaring independence from Moscow and igniting the breakup of the Soviet Union, Lithuanians voted their former communist leaders back into power. But the victory of the freshly named Democratic Labor Party does not presume a return to orthodox communism. It testifies instead to the disappointment of the great expectations in the three Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia that the end of Soviet rule would mean the beginning of a wonderful life...
...VIEWS: Communism's Shattered Dream...