Word: decembrist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he was to leave the Soviet Union that day on the 7:15 p.m. flight from Sheremetyevo Airport. That knowledge only increased the poignancy of Daniloff's visit earlier that morning to the grave of his great-great-grandf ather, a Russian who took part in the 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Czar and was subsequently exiled to Siberia...
...last major change or attempted change in Russian government came in 1971, over six decades ago. That change came a decade after the 1905 revolution, and two decades after the attempted assassination of the czar in 1881. Five and a half decades earlier the Decembrist Movement of 1825 took place. Thus the current system has gone longer without an attempted radical change than any time within the last two centuries. This is not meant to say that a change or an attempt at one will of necessity occur, but it does suggest the magnitude of the pressures for change which...