Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempts to achieve outs, while the free- swinging cossacks were responsible for most of the offense. The amazing success of the cossacks, who often went undefeated for decades at a time, is sometimes cited by Izvestia as proof that polo as well as baseball originated in sports-minded Russia...
...world face today." Declares Ohio University Professor John Lewis Gaddis, a noted historian of the postwar era: "What was once an ideological struggle between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. has evolved into an old-fashioned great-power rivalry that is not much different from the rivalry between England and Russia in the 19th century...
...rhetoric, the Soviet quest for security is essentially aggressive. The Russian word for security, bezopasnost, translates literally as "absence of danger." Moscow's way of achieving that state has often been to identify a danger, then crush it. As a largely landlocked nation with a history of being invaded, Russia developed an expansionist desire to control large territories. Over the years, there has been nothing as offensive as Russia on the defensive. Witness the postwar subjugation of Eastern Europe and the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan...
...Soviets have previously made similar accommodating noises that turned out to produce breathing spaces of a dismayingly short duration. Lenin used the concept of "coexistence" to justify taking Russia out of World War I. Stalin subscribed to the doctrine of "collective security" against Hitler in the 1930s and then secretly negotiated a pact with the Nazi dictator...
More than 60 years before the Bolshevik Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote of Russia and America that "each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world." Thus it has been for 42 years since the celebratory meeting of Soviet and American troops on the Elbe River at the end of World War II gave way to the deadly distrust of the postwar...