Word: leninist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serious, coordinated way. Neither the National Security Council, which is the President's personal think tank, nor the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, which is supposed to look over the horizon of foreign policy, is engaged in a systematic review of U.S. strategy for dealing with Marxist- Leninist regimes outside Europe. Instead, the regional experts of the + bureaucracy are nibbling away at their own pieces of what should be seen, and addressed, as a global challenge -- and opportunity...
...Leninist system was able to achieve forced industrialization. What prevents it from achieving a postindustrial state...
...attributed the stagnation of the economy and the discontent of the populace to "miscalculations by the ruling parties." The East European regimes had long taken it for granted that their Big Brothers in Moscow would provide the brute force that is the substitute for political legitimacy in the Marxist- Leninist system. Now all of a sudden, the No. 1 man in the Kremlin was saying he would not back them up and that they had to find a way of making a genuine social compact with their own people, or fall. Hence the most amazing events...