Word: revolutionizing
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This is "one of those rare moments in history when a nation is undergoing a true social revolution," says Michael McFaul, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment Moscow Center. "It is not simply a transition-to-democracy situation, when both sides agree on the ultimate outcome and contest for...
Demokratiya, konstitutsiya, parlament and Prezident are all foreign additions to the Russian vocabulary. And although Russians can boast of ancient proto-democratic institutions like the village mir or the veche of Novgorod, where consensus decisions were reached at a kind of town meeting, centralized rule by an all-powerful executive...
A major strand of the novel follows Frederica's attempts to make a new life for herself and prevent Nigel from taking her son from her. This conflict will wind up, of course, in court. So does another subplot of the novel, the appearance of a strange, semipornographic novel, Babbletower...
His fruitful collaboration with the regime is especially peculiar because Ehrenburg was an early and vocal anti-Bolshevik. Born to a middle-class Jewish family in Kiev in 1891, he joined the Party in his teens but later quit in disgust at its intolerance and inability to understand art. Instead...
Sociologist Arlie Hochschild calls it the "stalled revolution." Since the '70s, women have poured into the workplace, compelled by economic necessity and personal ambition, to the point where dual-wage-earner families are now the norm. Yet somehow neither work nor the family has changed enough to make this a...