Word: raisa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Czech reforms, however, were crushed by Soviet tanks the following year, and Mlynar went into exile; he now lives in Austria. The two old friends talked and drank through that afternoon and deep into the night. When they finally returned to Gorbachev's apartment, much the worse for wear, Raisa was furious...
Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev were dining with Margaret and Denis Thatcher during their 1984 visit to Britain, and the talk got around to the working class. In his country, the Soviet leader-to-be asserted, "we are all working class...
That exchange has never been reported in the Soviet Union, nor was Gorbachev's confirmation to Tom Brokaw last month that he discussed "Soviet affairs at the highest level" with Raisa. If it were known that Raisa had once contradicted her husband before a foreign leader -- well, that could only add to the whispered accusations that Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev, 55, is guilty of conduct unbecoming a Soviet wife. In a land where women have full equality under the law but where a husband has the last word, Raisa has become a widely respected but occasionally resented figure. To a Westerner...
...Raisa is rarely mentioned by name in the Soviet press. She was born in the Siberian town of Rubtsovsk in Altai Krai, though she told reporters at a parade in Moscow last month that she is "absolutely Russian." According to her official biography, her father was a railway engineer. Raisa's chosen profession is teaching. When the newly married Gorbachevs moved to Stavropol in 1955, Raisa found a job at a local school and continued to teach for the next 23 years. When her husband was summoned back to Moscow in 1978 to take charge of Soviet agriculture, Raisa became...
...TIME's Man of the Year. But who is he? What $forces have shaped his mind, his methods? How $did he rise from Privolnoye to power? TIME $presents a candid biography of the year' s most $remarkable figure. -- For a Soviet wife, she is $uncommonly outspoken, glamorous and $controversial. Raisa is also her husband' s secret $weapon. -- A White House scandal unfolds, a $contrary war continues, a boom goes bust, and a $plague rages on. It was a year that Ronald $Reagan would just as soon forget...