Word: minding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if Gorbachev is reined in, or toppled, the seeds he has sown in the Soviet mind and the changes he has already wrought will leave an indelible mark. The reforms of Khrushchev and Kosygin were squelched, but the ideas they planted blossomed a quarter-century later in a new generation of leadership. As Gorbachev told Henry Kissinger when he visited Moscow earlier this year, "At any rate, things will never be the same again in the Soviet Union." Notes Kissinger: "This would be a modest result for so Herculean a task." Yes, but once again the contradiction is also...
...They have tasted the fruits of private marketplaces and cooperative cafes, discovered the potential (and, yes, the frustrations) of private entrepreneurship; they have watched candidates debate on television and be asked whether they believe in God. And they have read articles brushing the dust off Trotsky, probing the demonic mind of Stalin and introducing them to the ideas of Lech Walesa...
...NIGHT WATCH by Mikhail Kurayev (Novy Mir, No. 2, 1989). A fascinating journey inside the mind of a fictional secret policeman, Comrade Polubolotov, who helped carry out the murderous Stalinist purges of the 1930s but insists he was merely "a soldier...
...worst thing there, of course, was the time when the gang came up from Boston and smashed all the windows of all the stores in Harvard Square," he says. "It was the most horrible thing you can imagine--glass, destruction all over, and why anybody in their right mind would do that--I mean, I thought people had gone crazy...
...already light. The streets were deserted. Many thoughts ran through my mind. I thought of my optimistic conversation with Professor Lipset during the afternoon in the Yard. 'If the administration just plays it cool, maybe Harvard can turn the tide and be the first school to defeat the New Left.' He answered, "The question is whether they will be stupid enough to call the cops...