Word: czaristic
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...republic was created in 1924, and in all these years we've had nothing. We were a distant Czarist outpost. Tadzhikistan had been part of the Great Silk Road, and this trade left its traces in the northern part of our country, which is better off. But without the Soviet Union today we won't advance. Compared with the Baltics, we are a milk cow for raw materials. To build enterprises we need equipment, and where will we get it if we separate...
Something similar has happened with ethnic strife, a curse of empire since czarist times. In 1969 a soccer club from Moscow traveled to Tashkent and made the mistake of beating the home team. Uzbek fans went on a rampage and defenestrated several Russian students at the local university. It was weeks before even rumors of the incident reached Moscow. Now, when Bishop Berkeley's tree falls in the Russian forest, there is a camera crew from State Radio and Television to chronicle the event, along with several foreign correspondents, a visiting political scientist or two and an attache from...
...scene prompted double takes from Muscovites exiting the Sokol metro station. A few yards away, by the gateway of All Saints Russian Orthodox Church, waved the flag of pre-revolutionary Russia. Beneath the banner stood two young men in czarist military uniforms and two older men -- a grizzled Soviet army colonel in a karakul hat who proudly displayed an icon in a gilt- and-silver frame, and a gray-bearded orator who harangued curious bystanders over a megaphone. In a rambling tirade, the speaker called for the spiritual renewal of Russia, denouncing "Jewish Marxists" for masterminding the Bolshevik Revolution...
...collapse of the monarchy gave it to become a modern country in this century. In assembling the Soviet state, the Bolsheviks took two components of their own revolutionary modus operandi -- terror and conspiracy -- grafted them onto the ideology of universal state ownership, then retained five vestiges of the czarist old regime: despotism, bureaucracy, the secret police, a huge army and a multinational empire subjugated by Russians...
...trade unionists and factory workers from groups like the United Worker's Front who oppose a "return to capitalism"; military officials angered by plans to convert defense factories to civilian use; entrenched party apparatchiks who fear the loss of position and privileges; and Russian nationalists who hanker after the Czarist past, many of them aligned with the reactionary Pamyat (Memory) movement. Whatever their ideological differences, the conservatives are united by a concern that the reforms are moving too fast and bringing in alien Western ideas that are pushing the country toward a social breakdown...