Word: russian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mark Steinberg, a professor of 20th-century Russian history, mediated the discussion, and questioned some of the Soviet students' assertions about post-revolution Russian history...
...petty states and the individualism of nations." He thought the workers of Germany would side with Russia after the Revolution of 1917, even though the two countries were still at war. The successors of Lenin and then Stalin seemed surprised when frustration with the Communist system merged with anti-Russian sentiment to help trigger such traumatic events as the Hungarian uprising of 1956, the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Polish Solidarity movement...
...November 1984, Blazakis said, Galanos asked the First Lady to select one of two fur jackets to go with the second Inaugural gown he was designing for her. One was a $10,500 white mink, the other a $35,000 Russian sable. According to Blazakis, Nancy had wanted to keep both. Galanos persuaded her that the American mink would be more appropriate and did not give her the sable. Mrs. Reagan, however, did not wear the mink to the Inaugural. Crispen last week said that Mrs. Reagan recalls borrowing the jacket and wearing it once, then returning it sometime later...
Frye says the center finally opened in 1956, at about the same time that Russian and East Asian Studies Centers were set up at the University. He also says that it was at this time that the Aga Khan endowed a chair for Middle Eastern history, to which Frye was appointed...
Only three days after the change of KGB chiefs, the leadership was reshuffled in the most populous of the country's 15 republics. Vitali Vorotnikov, 62, premier of the Russian Republic (population: 144 million), was kicked upstairs into the presidency, making way for Alexander Vlasov, 56, a Gorbachev protege, to succeed him. As Interior Minister of the U.S.S.R., Vlasov had overseen a massive clean-up of the corruption-riddled police force. Now, with changes under way in the KGB, Gorbachev must decide who will replace Vlasov...