Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Taking the trans-Siberian across Stalin's Russia in 1935 was a tense and dreary experience. Thousands were dying of famine and purges and the country was wracked by economic and social chaos. Anxious to hide as much as possible from their foreign travelers. Soviet officials stopped the train at Baiku on the excuse that a log had fallen across the tracks--and held it there for 12 hours. "The result," Tuchman recalls, "was that we hit every station thereafter in the middle of the night--and didn't see anything...
Since Tuchman, the humanist, spoke these words, her philosophy, of history has gradually evolved to a place more and more emphasis on the second dimension of her theory. Half a century ago she saw institutions destroyed in Japan and Stalinist Russia, and watched idealism self-distract in the country side of Civil War-torn Spain. In the last 15 years--she has seen the Vietnam War. Watergate and the atom bomb trigger the same reactions in the United States, she has with increasing frequency turned to history for answers. Although she still retains her humanistic vision, she has gradually focused...
...well-equipped standing army that would ardently defend "socialism in one country." Upon accession to power, Stalin committed the Soviet Union to "catching and overtaking the capitalist countries." Holloway finds the early roots of the arms race. As he goes on to show, the surprise German attack on Russia in June 1941 left an indelible mark on the minds of Soviet strategists, who have since determined never to allow such vulnerability again...
...fear that you will be absorbed by this city and its decadent culture. What shall we tell them in Russia? That Trotsky, comrades, has become a New Yorker...
...special promotions," said Mary E. Sullivan of Crimson Travel Service, which is arranging these jaunts. "Russia in April, China in summer...