Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, the prototypical born-again nationalist, is in the habit of referring to all Soviet weapons in his republic as "ours." He enjoys pointing out that Ukraine would be the third largest nuclear power on earth, after the U.S. and whatever is left of the U.S.S.R. Kazakhstan would be fourth. Belorussia would be in the next echelon with Britain, France and China...
...goes well with Sobchak's economic reform plans, Chubais predicts a rise in the standard of living in the city by the end of 1992. The question is whether St. Petersburg residents will have the patience to wait that long. Leonid Keselman, a sociologist who specializes in public opinion surveys, believes they will. "The people of this city have suffered for a long time without hope," he says. "Now they have something real to hope for." If Keselman is right, it may be only a matter of time before Peter the Great's old capital reclaims its place among...
...deepest problem is that Sale, like others who idealize the people whose fate was sealed by the explorer's arrival, actually does them another kind of injury. The perfect island race of Sale's imagination is denied its commonality with the rest of humanity. Father Leonid Kishkovsky of the Orthodox Church in America, who chaired the National Council of the Churches meeting at which the controversial Columbus quincentennial resolution was debated, is one of those who question the notion implicit in Sale's work that evil was something imported exclusively from Europe: "In a certain sense this is patronizing...
...communist economy was, it did provide jobs of a sort for everybody and a steady, if meager, supply of basic goods at low, subsidized prices; Soviet citizens for more than 70 years were conditioned to expect that from their government. Says a Moscow worker: "We had everything during ((Leonid)) Brezhnev's times. There was sausage in the stores. We could buy vodka. Things were normal...
...comrade's room reeks of the past. Above the desk hangs a portrait of Lenin, a treasured gift from Leonid Brezhnev. On another wall is a tapestry of Karl Marx, a present from fallen East German leader Erich Honecker. Elsewhere sit a replica of Lenin's telephone; a wood sculpture from Fidel Castro; and busts of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Gus Hall, aging chairman of the Communist Party U.S.A., calls his New York City office a "museum of history." But among all these historic mementos, Hall is, unwittingly, the prime exhibit...