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...large extent, the Soviet Union was originally constructed as a military enterprise. After taking power in 1917, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky quickly forged the Red Army to fight the White Russians. Lenin's successor, Joseph Stalin, saw his first priority as building up powerful defenses to protect against "capitalist encirclement" and to preserve the "Socialist Motherland." Beginning with the first Five-Year Plan in 1928, industries were divided into A (military) and B (civilian) groups, with the A organizations having first call on all resources...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Carl Bernstein, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Marguerite Johnson, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias, Michael Walsh...
...Force Secretary Donald Rice announced the winner. Suddenly, after the expenditure of nearly $3.5 billion in development funds, official Washington was raising the questions that should have been asked five years ago: Who needs this jet? What is it for? And why does it cost so much? As Leon Panetta, chairman of the House Budget Committee, points out, "It is hard to justify building $100 million airplanes" in the light of the current budget deficit and increasingly urgent domestic needs...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Carl Bernstein, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Marguerite Johnson, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias, Michael Walsh...
...thinks it is ready for prime time. Its p.r. director, Major General Alexander Karbainov, was in Rome last week to announce a joint Soviet- Italian production -- a 13-episode TV series to be called The KGB Tells All. It will cover such famous cases as the assassination of Leon Trotsky by one of Stalin's hit men and the defections of Kim Philby and other Britons who spied for Moscow. Preparations will take about a year, the producers say, and scriptwriters will be able to consult some secret material. The 90-minute docudramas will be filmed in Europe...