Word: communisme
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...market economy. Next, Americans should keep encouraging Russians, as they emerge from Sovietism, that a system of political accountability is better than any dictatorship; that private property is always a better hedge against poverty than collectivist social engineering; and that Russia's struggle to cleanse itself of communism is as commendable as Germany's exorcism of Nazism after World...
...biggest impulse to the recent explosion, however, has been the end of the cold war. "The reason why the ethnic rivalries and aspirations surfaced so suddenly in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is that till recently communism kept them in a time warp," says Oxford history professor Robert O'Neill. Tensions burst forth with explosive fury as soon as the lid of dictatorship was lifted...
Given a better break by history and its accomplice geography, those two countries might be cohesive and thriving today. But Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia fell victim to communism. For them, Wilson's legacy was at midcentury supplanted by Lenin...
That issue disposed of, Yeltsin turned to the development of the Russian economy. In a speech that moved a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress to 13 standing ovations, Yeltsin denounced communism as a failure and pledged to build democracy and a market economy in Russia. "I will not go back on the reforms," he vowed. He urged Congress to pass pending legislation that will provide broad assistance for Russia, including $12 billion to support the International Monetary Fund's aid efforts...
...tenebrous string texture is punctuated by Upshaw's ethereally intoning a 15th century Polish lament and, later, a mother's dirge for her murdered son, whose words were inscribed in 1944 on the wall of a Gestapo prison. The result is chilling, moving, unique. With the collapse of communism, Poland's reclusive Gorecki, 59, is just now finding his way into the international spotlight. May it shine upon...