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...experience spanning 17 years of the author's life. Yet by not relating the past in chronological order, Schmemann is able to condense 200 years of history into the blink of an eye. As a whole, this compressed history expresses a sense of waste and of sadness for communism's unfortunate effects on Russia's fate and for the country's difficulties in its present attempts at democracy...
...Native Land, Serge Schmemann provides a unique glimpseinto a set of lives within Russia as they were affected by the Bolshevik revolution. The events of the past are presented according to theirsignificance in Koltsovo, not Moscow, and the result is a narrative that helps explain the psychological effects of communism and the feelings of a set of rural people in the face of a new political order...
PARIS: Not even the lingering nostalgia for communism in French society will give Carlos the Jackal much sympathy during his trial which started here Friday...
...worse than Kennedy's private infidelities was his public policy. He failed to support fully the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and allowed Fidel Castro to establish a beachhead for communism in the western hemisphere. Kennedy did not act effectively when the Berlin Wall was erected, profoundly affecting the NATO alliance, and he increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The consequences of his misguided policies plagued the U.S. long after his brief, disastrous presidency. RICHARD BLAUW South Holland...
...communism's brutality is incapacitating the dissidents, capitalism's seductiveness is discouraging others from raising their fists. Many Chinese intellectuals who would have been in the forefront of protest five years ago are busily making money in business or even government jobs. Liberal economist Cao Siyuan of Beijing runs a consultancy linking bankrupt enterprises with interested investors...