Word: perestroika
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...play work is the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Company’s first spring Loeb Mainstage production. While the first play, “Millennium Approaches,” debuted at Harvard more than a decade ago in 1997, Harvard has never performed the second play, “Perestroika.” Co-directed by Sara L. Wright ’09 and Laura S. Hirschenberg ’09 and produced by Elizabeth J. Krane ’11 and Brittany L. Turner ’09, “Millennium Approaches” opens on April...
...That last insight is the key. Victor Gusev, Russia's leading football commentator, warns it will take years for the system to produce enough young players to reverse what he calls the "horrendous football losses of the perestroika period and of the early 1990s," when the old Soviet sports structures collapsed and young people abandoned the game in droves. But with Russia's corporations and businessmen flush with cash, there's a chance to build something again. And even if the Russians don't make much of a splash at Euro 2008, there is another prize in their sights: officials...
...earthquake of 1985 was the catalyst that convinced a generation that a nation's political system needed radical reform. A year later, after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Mikhail Gorbachev saw that the Soviet Union could not continue in its old ways, and redoubled his nascent commitment to glasnost and perestroika. The Asian tsunami of 2004 prompted those who lived in the devastated Indonesian province of Aceh to find a political solution to the divisions that had long blighted them...
...known as a thug. Thought to be behind kidnappings and murders as the "Butcher of Ukraine," he later persecuted Russians who had too much contact with foreigners before finally becoming highly visible as the Soviet Union's top cop in the '80s. His efforts at first seemed to foreshadow perestroika-like reforms: he exposed official corruption and condemned drunkenness. But Western analysts called his heavy-handed tactics "neo-Stalinist." In the late '80s Mikhail Gorbachev sidelined him. Fedorchuk...
...expects Raul, himself once known as a communist hard-liner, to be Mikhail Gorbachev. But the less charismatic Raul is considered more pragmatic than his brother, and had been making perestroika-style noises since taking over as interim President after Fidel underwent major intestinal surgery 18 months ago. As a result, now that Raul has full presidential powers, many Cuba watchers had expected younger faces to emerge - widely anticipating, for example, that Raul's reform-minded economy czar, Carlos Lage, who in relative Cuban terms is a positively teen-aged 56, would become First Vice President. Lage instead remained...