Word: ex-communist
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...build capitalist democracies must do so from scratch, with little or no experience in either capitalism or democracy. They are getting precious little help from their cold-war adversaries, who sometimes seem to enforce a double standard. Western governments may, for example, demand that to qualify for aid an ex-communist country reduce its agricultural subsidies to a level well below the largesse that the West showers on its farmers. Worse, in order to keep their countries operating, democratic leaders in the old Soviet orbit have to rely on the army of apparatchiks who ran the communist system...
Virtually everyone I've talked to here complains that the U.S. has been slow to recognize, and support, what is happening to the U.S.S.R. "We understand that George Bush wants to save Gorbachev," says Vladimir Grinyov, an ethnic Russian and ex-Communist, who is both Kravchuk's deputy and his rival. "But to concentrate on Moscow is harmful to the devolution of power and the spread of democracy...
...Hiss, Edward Herrmann (who played F.D.R. in Eleanor and Franklin) is the quintessence of Ivy League aplomb, but with a hint of arrogance and evasiveness. John Harkins, a close physical match for Chambers, is eerily effective as the tormented ex-Communist turned passionate antiCommunist. As Nixon, who built his political career on his role in the Hiss case, Peter Riegert (who starred in the film Local Hero) maintains a steady scowl but avoids facile parody...
...open letter that circulated in Warsaw last week, ex-Communist Party Member Stefan Bratkowski, the former head of the Association of Polish Journalists, called for a "ceasefire" in the "civil war" launched by "the authorities against their own population...
Gornick's insistent sentimentality is not the book's only flaw. It is, after all, difficult to weave numerous interviews together in a readable fashion. One wishes, nonetheless, that Gornick devised transitions more imaginative than bulletins announcing with which ex-Communist she drank coffee and with whom she guzzled Scotch. Descriptions of living room decor also fail to enhance the reader's understanding of American Communism's nature, romantic or otherwise. And, in most instances, her discourses on her subjects' family histories are of interest only to an eager parlor Freudian...