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...Russian populations always met with resistance. There was never any real danger to the preservation of different national identities. That is why the system was acceptable to most ethnic groups in the past and why Moscow was reasonably successful in containing nationalism. Only when Russia engaged in outright imperialism did it get into serious trouble -- notably during the cold war, when expansionism, primarily in Eastern Europe, threatened the viability of the country...
That opening confrontation is not only dramatic but also, by erstwhile Soviet standards, outright dangerous. It portrays Lenin as a fallible man, not a mythic hero. It admits that the Bolsheviks were detested by many of the peasants they purported to help. And the play commits the once unpardonable sin of bringing Trotsky onstage -- showing him, in fact, as shrewder than Lenin. The theme is ideological purity vs. practical necessity, with pragmatism favored all the way. Compromise with the West is extolled as sensible; worldwide revolution is dismissed as a daydream...
...Sung dynasty made ritual bronze vessels almost indistinguishable from those of the Shang period, 2,100 years earlier. Roman sculptors in the 2nd century A.D. made versions of 5th century B.C. Greek prototypes, and from then on, there would be an immense industry in the copying, overrestoration and outright forgery of everything antique -- marbles, bronzes, pots, cameo gems, goldwork...
...intransigence toward the Palestinians is not the only cause of the unprecedented wave of criticism. Division and anxiety are also increasing over Israel's military ties to South Africa and the venturesome foreign policy that led to the Iran- contra affair and the Pollard spy case. There is outright disgust with the vulnerability of Israel's political system to the demands of fanatical ultra- Orthodox sects, as demonstrated last month by the ability of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, an 88-year-old Brooklyn rabbi, to derail the Labor Party's attempt to form a government. Last week, after Labor leader Shimon...
...there any way out? The U.S. is not the only government going bankrupt from interest payments. Much of the Third World also owes billions to rich Americans, among others. Many Third World governments have defaulted on their debts in one way or another. Outright renunciation is uncommon, but forced renegotiation and freezes on interest payments are not. Perhaps we should try something similar...