Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poland, but the supreme irony was that its freedom-loving citizens were not able to develop those same mental forms which could preserve that freedom." He sets up rigid dichotomies between Polish culture and the surrounding barbarism. The monomania goes to the point where he assets that Germany and Russia invaded Poland solely to allay the fear that their common people would envy the conditions of the Poles and be incited to rebel. He makes no mention of Poland's immense strategic value or her rich fertility...
...policy should not come as a surprise. One doesn't have to be a hawk to understand that the Soviet political system has evolved in a manner that permits its leaders to act in ways abhorrent to Western democracies. Yet it should be apparent--given the many invasions of Russia throughout its history, the 20 million Soviet World War II casualties, and Moscow's fear of aggression from both the East and the West--that these acts result at least in part from Soviet paranoia. A consistent Western policy of economic exchange, decreased rhetoric and serious arms control negotiations based...
...latest book is the result of her collaboration on four anthologies of Russian prose and poetry in English with the late British translator and critic Max Hayward. Blake has now edited and written a long introductory essay for a collection of Hayward's articles, Writers in Russia 1917-1978, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...with the other Western powers. The same year, proud of their nation's new status, they picked a quarrel with China over disputed rights in the feeble kingdom of Korea. They attacked without warning, and won a quick victory. Ten years later, they inflicted the same fate on Russia...
...opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Dairen, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says, "People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted." But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers, "I think that if my mother had remained...