Word: russianness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shearson Lehman Hutton commercial shows Slavic women wearing U.S. running shoes and a teenager riding a skateboard past a hammer-and-sickle sculpture. The tactics have even been adopted by the other side: one of the products to extol improved East-West relations in its ads is Stolichnaya, the Russian vodka...
Gorbachev, who has called a multiparty system "rubbish," has good reason to worry. Many non-Russians in the Soviet empire -- Ukrainians and Azerbaijanis as well as Armenians and Balts -- would flock to new parties seeking autonomy from Moscow. The Baltic republics already sport popular fronts and other freshly minted political groups whose members ran as independent candidates in national elections earlier this year and trounced establishment party hacks. In the Russian Republic itself, there is mounting anger and frustration with empty shops and suffocating bureaucracy that could easily swell the rolls of a gaggle of independent parties. Politburo member Yegor...
...take a close look at this new international superstar. As a Communist he is publicly dedicated not to renouncing Marxism, like millions of demonstrators in Eastern Europe, but to rejuvenating it. He is a proud Russian nationalist. He likes power, knows how to use it and wants to keep it. His political reforms, glasnost, are totally inadequate compared with a free society. But compared with what the Soviet people had before, the changes are breathtaking. His economic reforms, perestroika, have been an abject failure. For example, in the ten years of Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms, the per capita income...
Chagall: The Russian Years, 1907-1922 by Aleksandr Kamensky (Rizzoli; $100). Like the figures in his paintings, Marc Chagall (1887-1985) floated over formal artistic boundaries. This book tracks his flight from the Russian village that gave him his themes and folk style to St. Petersburg and beyond, where he reflected his past in modernism's bright palette and broken planes...
...seemed to grow even as the problems of the Communist world worsened. En route to Malta, Gorbachev stopped in Rome to visit John Paul II. His momentous meeting with the Pope marked the beginning of the end of more than 70 years of antagonism between the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church. The first Soviet Communist Party boss to set foot on Vatican soil, Gorbachev conferred with the Pope for an unexpectedly long 75 minutes in the library of the 16th century Apostolic Palace. Addressing John Paul II as "Your Holiness" -- no small gesture for the leader of a nation...