Word: russian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...piety, Raisa professes tolerance for religion. "I am an atheist," she told a church group in Iceland in 1986. "But I know the church, and I respect all faiths. It is, after all, a personal matter." She does not necessarily reject spirituality; that would mean brushing aside much of Russian literature and art, subjects that are dear to her. After her husband's rise to power, she was said to have been instrumental in the rehabilitation of Nikolai Gumilyov, a poet executed by the Bolsheviks in 1921. Gumilyov's verses shimmer with images of cathedral domes and crucifixes...
...some advice. I'm a beginner at this job." She learned fast, and quickly became a hit in the West. In Washington, accompanied by Van Cliburn on the piano, she and her husband made White House guests smile by leading the Soviet delegation in a rendition of a sentimental Russian favorite, Moscow Nights...
...valuable addition to any magazine's demographic profile: Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev, the focus of this week's cover stories on Soviet women. During the Washington summit last December, Mrs. Gorbachev spotted TIME Correspondent Nancy Traver, who spent 3 1/2 years as a journalist in Moscow and who speaks Russian, at a meeting in the Soviet embassy that was closed to the press. Mrs. Gorbachev took her hand, pulled her alongside and said there was nothing wrong with having an American reporter in - the room. "The American and Soviet press should work together to build peace," she said. The Soviet First...
...contrary Russian view, from Tolstoy through Lenin, is that history is mainly forces and factors. "In historical events great men -- so called -- are but the labels that serve to give a name to an event," Tolstoy wrote in War and Peace, "and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself." Herein lies another irony: just as Reagan's romantic view overstates the role that individuals can play in shaping history, the Russian view probably understates Gorbachev's personal potential...
...problem mocked Marxist economics, the cost of the novel rose from the official price of 2.5 rubles ($4.20) to an extortionist 25 rubles on the black market. Plans at Sovietsky Pisatel and Moskovsky Rabochy, the popular author's two publishers, call for at least 2.4 million additional hardbacks in Russian, plus editions in Ukrainian, Armenian, Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian...