Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read magazines like the Saturday Evening Post by kerosene lamplight. The outside world was remote. America's role in World War I had destroyed the distance, but that was not yet clear. If the world was considered at all, it seemed somewhat menacing?especially the new Communist regime in Russia, which was seen as a fragile but ominous experiment (TIME wrote: "The czarist oligarchy has given way to proletarian absolutism"). Even so, the globe still appeared relatively ordered, like a neatly colored 19th century map, and it seemed that its parts could be kept in place...
...partition of Germany. Even today, the generation guiding the Soviet Union still remembers quite clearly the carnage of 1941-45. The memory was even fresher in the '60s and early '70s, when American strategic power held a vast advantage over the Soviets. Directly related to this war memory is Russia's intense desire to keep Germany split. In a sense, Soviet domination of Eastern Europe is justified in the Russian view as a "buffer zone," with E. Germany serving as the forward bustion between the homeland and any future aggression. Four, even paranoia, of a reunited Germany, backed...
...Even the initial estimates of force to be negotiated were in dispute. The West estimated Warsaw Pact and Russian combined troop strength at approximately 925,000. NATO's at 777,000. However, Russia claimed rough parity at the lower level. Ten years later, the two sides have come no closer to aggreement on the data, that presumably would be a prerequisite for any final treaty...
...cost for equal security, greater assurance against attack, and a simple slacking of military tension during peacetime. And for the East the gains from an MBFR agreement would be tangible as well: a reduction in cost and tension and a lessening of the American presence in Europe, something that Russia has wanted for a long time...
...year saga is a collage of the most dismal events in Polish history, including invasions by Tatars, Cossacks and Turks; partitioning by Russia, Austria and Germany; and the Nazi occupation during World War II. Michener attempts to impose an artificial symmetry upon these events by telling the stories of three fictional families who do battle through the centuries against the country's successive despoilers. Each family represents a different stratum of society. The Lubonskis are nobles, the Bukowskis are members of the gentry, and the Buks are peasants. To keep the scions of these families rushing forth to affront...