Word: revolutionize
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Pipes said he had been collecting material inthe Russian archives for his new book, Russianarchives for his new book, Russia Under the NewRegime, a sequel to the Russian Revolution,when the trial's judges called to ask him totestify as an expert on the Communist Party.
Pronin's grim quarters are all too typical of the scores of derelict apartment buildings peppering the capital, where he and others live in squalor. They are members of the fast-growing underclass, made more visible by the demise of the Soviet Union and forced by Russia's economic revolution...
On a warm night in Valencia, 300 citizens gather in the streets of Malvarrosa, a beachfront neighborhood. Passing a megaphone back and forth, they snake through the streets, shaking their fists at apartments where, they claim, heroin traffickers live. "Drug dealers out! Out! Out!" they shout. For seven years, the...
Just before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, it looked as though the Westernizers had decisively won. Russia was by then a Western-oriented constitutional monarchy with the fastest-growing capitalist economy in Europe. Yet two years later, the Bolsheviks were declaring ideological war on Europe.
Not even long-established multiethnic states seem to be immune from breakup. For 74 years Czechoslovakia achieved a mostly peaceful accommodation between Slovaks and Czechs. As recently as 1989 they were solidly united in the "velvet revolution" against communist rule. But now, driven by discontent with their economic lag, the...