Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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None of the "conspirators" in that peaceful second putsch could bring themselves to deliver the final political coup de grace. Instead the Soviet President was left to go through the motions of office while Yeltsin methodically chipped away at his powers, placing the entire territory of the Kremlin under Russian control, and pro-Yeltsin television commentators made daily calls for Gorbachev to step down...
Will the rise of nationalism lead to anti-Semitism and racism? Yes, but standing at the funeral for three victims of the coup last August (one of whom was Jewish), I saw a crowd of 100,000 listen to the Kaddish, the Hebrew prayer of mourning. Just last winter, the reading of my translation of Bernstein's Kaddish at the Moscow conservatory seemed extraordinary. But what about the demons of democracy who sell anti-Semitic literature like Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion in Moscow underpasses...
...conflagrations of 1914-18 and 1939-45, resulted in the loss of approximately 60 million lives. The political miracle of 1989-91 has also had its victims: scores were killed in the crackdowns in Tbilisi, Baku, Vilnius and Riga, and three young men were martyred in the August coup. But large- scale outbreaks of violence have been fairly isolated everywhere except in the ethnic conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. By and large, the Soviet Union has given up the ghost of the totalitarian idea with remarkably little bloodshed...
...that tells our editors, writers, art directors and designers when their individual tasks should be complete each week. But the world of journalism has a funny habit of not cooperating with | anybody's flow charts. As a result, for the past 15 months -- through Desert Storm and the Soviet coup -- it's been Oliver's responsibility to ensure that no matter what, the magazine gets to the printers on time...
Born into a family of mountain shepherds, Nazarbayev joined the Communist Party at 22 and went on to become an engineer. He eventually landed a Central Committee post as secretary for industry. In 1989 he was named his republic's party leader, and quit only after the coup attempt. While his political instincts remain cautious, his economic boldness may convince Westerners that he is a man with whom they can do business...