Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their hotel rooms, refused to let them see anyone and expelled them from Iran after five days. They were furious, Rafsanjani reported. He quoted McFarlane as saying, "You are nuts. We have come to solve your problems, but this is how you treat us. If I went to Russia to buy furs, Gorbachev would come to see me three times...
This year the department offered junior tutorials for the first time, but the two newly-created classes probably will be discontinued after this year, students said. They requested tutorials which unified topics discussed in modern history and government courses, rather than tutorials just covering Russia before its 1917 revolution...
...wrote that he composed music as effortlessly as a cow urinates. Chekhov was more genteel about his own fluency. "I wrote serenely, as if eating bliny," he says, and elsewhere picks up an ashtray and offers to have a story about it ready for the next day. Editors of Russia's literary journals appreciated this facility and Chekhov's acceptance of editing to satisfy Czar Alexander III's censors...
Arab and Jew is not David Shipler's first book-length attempt to explain a foreign culture to an American audience. In 1983, he published Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams based upon his four years in the Soviet Union, where he served as a correspondent and later bureau chief for The New York Times. While Shipler says it was much easier to be a reporter in Israel than in Russia--"Israel is a flagrantly open society"--in both countries he faced the difficulty of reporting on a society about which many Americans had strong preconceptions...
...lifelong friend and fellow Ambassador to Moscow George Kennan accepted in Washington. "A curious blend of arrogance and insecurity, haughtiness and self-pity" is how Isaacson and Thomas describe Kennan. Yet they have no doubts about his unmatched foresight. He predicted the Sino- Soviet split and accurately saw that Russia would continue to be a threat because "its perverse paranoia and historical expansionism had been abetted and amplified, but not caused, by the Marxist doctrine." Kennan gave the Wise Men a persuasive tool; when they wanted to argue for an increased U.S. role in international affairs, they invoked...