Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Recent Russian scientific achievements, culminating in the firing of Sputnik, have strengthened the Soviet Union's position in regard to the satellite nations, and the uncommitted areas of the world, she said. Lack of knowledge and of understanding of our problems, inter-service rivalries, and a "McCarthyist" idea that the secrets of the A-bomb could be "locked up" has lost this race for America, she charged. She also criticized our emphasis on "lethal weapons...
...same meeting, Richard N. Frye, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, spoke of the growing confidence the Russians have in the material production of their state, which he found on his trip to Russian Central Asia. He contrasted this with their growing uncertainty in discussing political and religious matters. "I met no atheists," he said, "only agnostics...
Brzezinski compared Gomulka's government to a traditional dictatorship, with arbitrary limitation, but not elimination of personal freedom. This dictatorship is held up by popular fear of Russian intervention...
...fades, Gomulka will lose his internal support. This, he believes, would lead either to the substitution of a pseudo-Stalinist regime, causing an uprising by the Polish people, or the fall of Gomulka's government and its replacement by a more democratic government, which in turn would lead to Russian intervention...
...less a literary critic than Nikita S. Khrushchev has called this book "wrong at the root" and misrepresenting life "as through a crooked mirror." Before the Russian censors caught on to this view, the Moscow magazine Novy Mir published the novel in three installments last year. At the time, the world jumped with astonishment: a Russian novelist had not only written critically of the Soviet regime, but had done so bluntly, sarcastically, rudely. With Poland and Hungary threatening to tip the boat, Not by Bread Alone had a special menace because 1) it roused wild excitement among both intellectuals...