Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elen M. Roklina '88, who emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1978, said that she still has relatives in Russia who want to leave, and that she has little faith in Gorbachev and his policies...
...Puritan massacre of statues and pictures passed all reckoning. The idea that such things were in a sense the general aesthetic or historical property of the people -- which did something to mitigate the anticlerical rage of the French Revolution or the Bolsheviks in Russia -- did not arise in 17th century England, whose churches were stripped and gutted as thoroughly as those of Byzantium had been by the Frankish thugs of the Fourth Crusade...
...year of glasnost, Brodsky's Nobel raises the intriguing question of whether he might someday be invited to visit home. Although he never married, he has a son in the Soviet Union whom he has not seen in 15 years. In a sense, though, Brodsky has never left Russia. Its language shapes his thought, and its landscape glitters throughout his poems: "I was raised by the cold that, to warm my palm,/ gathered my fingers around...
Winston Churchill called Russia "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." This week's cover story looks inside the wrapping. We have assembled an exclusive 28-page portrait of "A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union," excerpted from a forthcoming book by Rick Smolan and David Cohen, which is surely one of the most thorough attempts to capture the soul of that cryptic country...
...called herself the last man in the German Democratic party. A politician, a spectacular orator, a radical and a doctor of economics, she was a major figure in the early 20th-century politics of Prussia, Poland and Czarist Russia. Yet since her murder by German army officials in 1919, Rosa Luxemburg has been largely forgotten. Until now, that...