Word: communisms
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...revolution are sobering for all, but especially for women: faster than anyone, they are losing their jobs, their social services, their economic independence. As conservative values are revived, the rights to abortion and divorce, for example, are coming under increasing fire. Yet women themselves often share that conservatism: communism never really erased traditional family values from their countries...
Addressing the position of women in China, Lord said that many of them initially embraced Communism as a possible solution to the problem of their inequality. Before the communist revolution, "they were praised for not being seen or heard," she said...
...happen. The euphoria felt by a continent awakening to its full potential after 45 years of cold war could not last. In the rush toward a united Europe in 1992, the European Community's toughest problems had been pushed to the sidelines, and the excitement over communism's collapse obscured the new dilemmas posed for the West by the political and economic needs of Eastern Europe. What no one could have anticipated was the speed with which the gulf crisis, and its attendant threat of recession, made matters worse by exposing some of Europe's illusions and sharpening some...
...essential one, peripheral until communism crumbled in the East, is between "deepening" and "widening": Should Western Europe accelerate its drive toward closer economic and political integration among the 12 members of the European Community, or reach out beyond them to the impoverished, bewildered East European countries as they grope their way toward viable free- market economies? Britain -- and increasingly the German government -- argues that priority should be given to developing assistance programs for the fragile Eastern democracies, whose political stability and economic recovery are essential for all of Europe...
...argument that Walesa, who forced Jaruzelski to resign, should not be allowed simply to steamroller his way into power. No matter what the outcome, the fight between Walesa, the former shipyard electrician, and Mazowiecki, the former newspaper editor, ends the alliance between workers and intellectuals that helped topple communism in Poland...