Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aikman jumped at the chance to interview Solzhenitsyn when the Soviet author sent word through his U.S. publisher, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, that he would be willing to talk to TIME. Says Aikman: "For any student of Russian thought and literature in the 20th century, Solzhenitsyn towers above the landscape. He...
Nicaragua has a precise way of marking time, like a.m. and p.m. or B.C. and A.D. Everything that happened during the 43 years prior to July 1979 took place "during the dictatorship"; everything afterward is "since the triumph of the revolution." Ten years ago this month, a victorious band of...
The revolution promised religious freedom. But when Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, the Primate of the Roman Catholic Church, offered help in rebuilding the country, he was curtly told to mind his own business. Obando became one of the regime's chief critics. Says he: "We just can't stand...
These outward signs of reclusiveness prompted much speculation. What was Solzhenitsyn doing in his bucolic isolation? After 13 years, an answer is finally emerging, and it is mind boggling. Aided by Natalya ("I don't think I could have done it without my wife"), he has constructed a virtual factory...
The Foreign Ministry lodged a separate protest with France for having allowed Chinese students in Paris to march in Friday's parade for the bicentennial of the French Revolution. The students carried a large banner reading, "We Carry On," in implied support for their Beijing classmates.