Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hungary, in a decision announced Saturday, was the first Eastern bloc government to help the citizens of another communist country to freely leave their homeland...
Energized and emboldened by Gorbachev's daring reform campaign, many East Europeans are setting out to draw new conclusions from old lessons. If most Communist countries share a perception of the political and economic forces that have brought them to this juncture, they lack a common vision of where they are going. Acknowledged Solidarity leader Lech Walesa: "Nobody has previously taken the road that leads from socialism to capitalism." Poland and Hungary are pressing ahead with sweeping reforms that promise to disprove the theory that totalitarian regimes cannot change. Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Bulgaria tinker with old formulas in hopes...
...best-known propagator of the theory that history has an "end," meaning its fulfillment in an ideal political system, was Karl Marx. He believed the contradictions of all previous societies would be resolved by the emergence of a Communist utopia. Marx borrowed his concept from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who argued that history would culminate, as Fukuyama puts it, at a moment "in which a final, rational form of society and state became victorious...
Could George Bush imagine, even six months ago, that there would be a non- Communist government in Eastern Europe during his lifetime, much less his presidency? Probably not. Then why is his response so lukewarm to an ideological victory that his predecessors, from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, could only dream about...
...Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's success may depend on his ability to deal with Poland's economic situation -- quickly. Can the U.S. really afford to let him fail for lack of assistance? It is odd, to say the least, that George Bush appears to have been as comfortable with the Communist status quo as with this historic breakthrough for democracy...