Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must have relished pawing Nixon, who hated to be touched. For all Brezhnev's bulk, there was something oddly "dainty" about him, as Willy Brandt put it. Here was huge, shapeless Mother Russia dressed as a man, the androgynous nation full of bear hugs and danger...
Murray Feshbach, America's leading expert on Soviet population trends, believes that the present 2% rate of Soviet economic growth could drop to zero or even go into the minus column because of more shortages of skilled labor, especially in European Russia, where most of the country's industry is situated...
Imperial Air: Soviets like to joke that one thing working against Grigori Romanov is his surname, the same as Russia's former royal family. Romanov, 59, is not laughing. After a meteoric rise to candidate membership in the Politburo in 1973 and full membership three years later, he appears to be going nowhere. Still, as First Secretary of the Leningrad Communist Party he cannot be completely counted out for the party's top office...
DIED. Edward Hallett Carr, 90, eminent historian and Cambridge don whose 14-volume History of Soviet Russia, published between 1950 and 1978, chronicled the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the decade afterward; in Cambridge, England...
...average Chinese train. The first morning the steward arranges lidded mugs on the table and huge bedrolls and backpillows on our four beds, which within a few hours are blackened with coal grit. We fill the thermos hooked under the table from a water boiler down the hall. In Russia, a local car, which we are forbidden to enter, hitches onto out tail. Other than that secret compartment, we may stroll the length of the train, peeping into second-class berths (fancy slipcovers) and first (two beds, an armchair, a hose shower, and a private toilet). Even in third class...