Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's preparations for the Geneva summit meeting with Gorbachev. Experts were brought in to brief him on the interplay between Russian culture and the Soviet system. One writer with whom Reagan developed a particular rapport was Suzanne Massie, author of Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia, an uplifting history of prerevolutionary Russian culture, its spiritual qualities and love of nature. Indeed, Massie has continued to visit the White House, most recently late last month, when she lunched with the Reagans. Massie sees Reagan as a man who "focuses on the individual -- that's the core...
...those momentous political events, Daniloff, the center of the storm, reached back into art for a poem by Mikhail Lermontov written almost 150 years ago for another world and circumstance. Grant that it was more diplomatic of Daniloff to quote Lermontov's exasperation with Mother Russia than to express his own. Still, it is curious that one would articulate feelings about so immediate and politically charged an event by using a form associated with indirection and repose...
Responding to a protester's comparison of the Soviet military presence in Afghanistan to Hitler's invasion of Russia, a top Kremlin official yesterday defended his country's role in that nation...
...Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is no different than Hitler's invasion of Russia, Brockunier announced to a group of several members of the audience and the press who gathered at the lecture podium to talk with Gerasimov...
While the Bolsheviks renounced Russian expansionism under Tzar Nicholas, within several years, they "began to behave in the imperial tradition," he said at the symposium on "Russia: The Continuities of Bureaucracy: State Power and Continental Empire...