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...crucial slip by workers at Moscow's All-Union Artistic-Production Association (hear the clang of bureaucracy in that name), and they must pour a whole new mold. In attempting nothing less than a second revolution, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is also adjusting Lenin, paying lip service to his dogma even while reshaping it to fit the needs of the U.S.S.R. The task is a delicate one, for the future of the Soviet Union -- in some ways, the future of us all -- is at stake. A single crucial slip and the nation's No. 1 sculptor might find himself starting from...
...evolution of the Sino-Soviet relationship has followed a tortuous course. A decade of comradeship shattered in 1960 over China's resentment at forever being expected to let Moscow call the tune, and over Mao's charge that Nikita Khrushchev was diluting Marxist-Leninist dogma. Border talks in 1978 began to melt the two-decade freeze. But before normalcy could be achieved, two outbreaks of hostilities in Asia seriously disturbed China. One was the invasion of Kampuchea by Viet Nam, a Soviet ally, which eventually provoked a "punitive attack" by Chinese troops on Hanoi's territory. The second...
...eloquent call for a new world order reverses decades of Soviet dogma and leaves it to Bush to come up with his own initiative. -- Will the promised cuts in conventional forces reduce the Soviet threat to Europe...
...than the years beginning in 1929, when Joseph Stalin forcibly collectivized agriculture. More than 10 million people are believed to have died of starvation as Stalin herded peasants onto huge state farms and marched their former bosses, the well-to-do kulaks, off to Siberia. Given history and Communist dogma, it seemed that not even Mikhail Gorbachev would dare challenge the primacy of the collective farm in the system. But last week the General Secretary did exactly that...
Those who aren't yet convinced of the CLS dogma say they leave with a better understanding of the thinking, but more questions about its applications for practice...