Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: While giving Cliff Sheehan a pep talk, Adam Dixon was approached by an official and ordered off the track. "It shows how quickly you are forgotten," Dixon said. "It's like being chairman of the Communist party in Russia and suddenly finding yourself in a six-foot cell in Siberia...
...students offered several different theories on why anti-semitism against mathematicians has increased over the last decade but agreed with Victor Kac, a professor of Mathematics at MIT and Soviet emmigre, that a "heightened climate of political repression" exists. The Soviet Union became more suppressive after 1968 when Russia invaded Czechoslovakia, Kac said yesterday...
...left Russia five years ago said the Communist Party played a major role in preventing talented people from advancing to positions of influence. "It's not only a question of anti-semitism but of bureaucrats more interested in politics than progress," Kac said...
Marx had foreseen a chain reaction of spontaneous uprisings by the working classes against the powers that be in their own countries. Yet Russia's Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917 was primarily the denouement of a tumultuous interaction of events-World War I, the dry rot of the Romanov dynasty, mutinies against the Tsar's commanders and German machinations to encourage Russia's withdrawal from the war-none of which had anything to do with the class struggle. The working class in Russia, to the extent that it existed, ended up a bystander rather than...
...U.S.S.R. produces so many guns at the expense of so much butter is a matter of heated debate. The dean of American Kremlin-watchers, George Kennan, attributes the Soviet accumulation of military firepower to a deep-seated insecurity "flowing from Russia's relative weakness and vulnerability." Richard Pipes, the hard-line anti-Soviet historian from Harvard who now serves as a specialist on Communist affairs for the National Security Council staff, stresses offensive over the defensive drives. "Militarism," he says, "is as central to Soviet Communism as the pursuit of profit is to capitalist societies," and this militarism...