Word: communisme
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Isaacson, an assistant managing editor of TIME, credits Kissinger and Nixon with transforming America's understanding of the world. Instead of seeing the U.S. as engaged in a struggle against an evil monolith, world communism, Nixon and Kissinger viewed the Soviet Union and China as traditional nations driven by competing interests; they designed U.S. foreign policy to exploit that competition in order to create a new, stable balance of power. It was, Isaacson writes, "a triumph of hard-edged realism worthy of a Metternich...
Elsewhere in what was once the Soviet bloc, the road to capitalist democracy is turning out to be strewn with pitfalls, detours and an occasional reversal. Hardly anyone in the former Soviet republics or the onetime satellite states of Eastern Europe is openly advocating a return to communism -- by that name. But in some countries, the communists who now call themselves socialists have given up hardly any of their control of economic, political and social life. President Ion Iliescu rules Romania less brutally than did his executed predecessor, Nicolae Ceausescu, but with as keen a will to block all reform...
...Poland the government of Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka, who took office only in July, is being threatened by labor unrest provoked by a coalition of former communists, angry farmers and antireform unions that have broken away from the change-minded Solidarity union. These workers grew used to communism's guaranteed employment at relatively high wages, and fear they are falling behind employees in the fast-growing private economy. They have struck for wage increases that, in the opinion of Lech Walesa, the founder of Solidarity who is now President of Poland, could be met only by "printing money." That, says...
...folklore and self-images and archetypes. The 1992 presidential campaign has made its noisy way across a nation that has lost many of its defining ideas about itself. The cold war's end gave Americans only a kind of abstract triumph -- and left a void. The collapse of communism and the Soviet empire suddenly removed the dark moral counterweight by which Americans measured their own virtue. Chronic recession, the rise of Japanese and European economic competitors, the vast inflow of immigrants from non-European sources (strangers to the older American tradition), the shrinking of the buffering Atlantic and Pacific oceans...
With the collapse of Soviet communism, the possibilities for diplomatic rapprochement might seem to be good, but that is misleading. Even though Moscow and Tokyo talk of settling the dispute in terms of "legitimacy and justice," control of the Kuriles turns more on issues of realpolitik. Says Mikhail Vysokov, director of the Sakhalin Center of Modern History: "Those with power have rights. When Russia had more power, it had more rights. Now Japan has more power...