Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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China first hinted at a change of heart by pointedly referring to Gorbachev as "comrade" following his rise to power in 1985. But most of the diplomatic action -- and concessions -- in the march toward reconciliation has come from Moscow. As diplomats in Britain sum up the warming trend: "Russia woos and China coos...
NOTHING SACRED George F. Walker wryly adapted Turgenev's Fathers and Sons so that student anarchism in 1860s Russia paralleled the polemics of Marxist collegians in 1960s America. Tom Hulce (Amadeus) starred in the first of a raft of U.S. stagings, at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum...
TOLSTOY by A.N. Wilson. One of Britain's most accomplished comic novelists tackles a profoundly somber subject: a literary titan's turbulent relationships with God, Russia and women...
This impatience with pseudo science began some 60 years ago, when little Isaac fell in love with facts. He was introduced to the world of information in his parents' Brooklyn candy store. The Asimovs were culturally ambitious Jewish immigrants from Russia, where their son was born, and the boy made a habit of devouring magazines as soon as they were put in the rack. "So that the publications could be sold later without looking used," he recalls, "I read them with a very light hand. When I was through, they would close as neatly as though they had never been...
...Gorby, who's trying to change Russia's style...