Word: legacyism
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The presidency is the apex of Turkey's secular state system, and draws its symbolic strength from the country's founding President, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who inscribed a pro-Western orientation into the political DNA of the state he built on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. Secularism - the strict...
In his finest moments, Yeltsin showed a side of Russia that the West could believe in, a Russia that shared the West's values and interests. The irony is that Yeltsin's more enduring legacy may be that he delivered a weak nation to a successor who is fashioning once...
When David Halberstam and I teamed up in 1963 to cover the Vietnam War--he for the New York Times and I for United Press International--we were too young to have reputations that might help protect us if our work was challenged. The Saigon regime was weak and corrupt...
But that was the high point in Yeltsin's career, and much of what followed in the interceding years will define his legacy in Russia: economic chaos, the first war in Chechnya, episodes of alcoholic boorishness, worsening health and plummeting popularity, even as his country's global status declined precipitously...
TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich asked two Muscovites from opposite ends of the social scale and with very different fortunes as a result of the Yeltsin era to give their own politial epitaphs on Russia's first post-Soviet President. The prosperous business executive and the lowly janitor had remarkably similar...