Word: means
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West and East today share, namely that the main decisive event was the so-called October Revolution and its consequences. But it became clear to me gradually that the main and decisive event was not the October Revolution, and that it wasn't a revolution at all. What we mean by revolution is a massive spontaneous event, and there was nothing of the sort in October. The true revolution was the February Revolution. The October Revolution does not even deserve the name revolution. It was a coup d'etat, and all through the 1920s the Bolsheviks themselves called...
...What do you mean by evil...
...Your ideas of both the Christian faith, in the form of Russian Orthodoxy, and of Russian nationalism have caused some critics to accuse you of being chauvinistic and xenophobic. Are you a Russian nationalist, and what does that mean...
...have said the moral life of the West has declined during the past 300 years. What do you mean by that...
Many ethicists have problems with the Louisiana law, which was designed with the laudable goal of protecting the embryo from experimental misuse or casual destruction. For example, does the statute's definition of the zygote as a juridical person mean that it has inheritance rights? Many secular experts argue that an embryo need not have the protection accorded human life until the fetus begins to take on recognizable features -- roughly, at the sixth week of pregnancy. But because of its human potential, these ethicists say, the frozen embryo should not be treated as mere tissue. Thus they see the donation...