Word: russianness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the accident appeared to involve a Soviet "Mike" submarine--one of the Russian Navy's newer attack subs designed to hunt and destroy other submarines in the event...
...weekend, Tom Thumb and The Great Catherine. Tom Thumb is a parody of Elizabethan drama in which the finger-sized hero falls in love with King Arthur's little known daughter, Huncamunca. George Bernard Shaw's The Great Catherine parodies a stuffy British man's encounter with the nymphomaniacal Russian Empress. Both dramas are one-act plays that Bader and Thompson have set against colorful circus surroundings. These performances run through next weekend in Lowell House...
...March 24 issue of the Crimson, I read an article about the Russian Research Center's use of Soviet collaborators during World War II in the post-war period. A distinguished scholar of Mongolian was prominently mentioned and I thought I should add my personal experiences to that story...
...should like to point out that Poppe was a Baltic German, not a Russian, and very anti-Stalin. The statement that he helped the Nazis pinpoint Jewish centers in the parts of the USSR occupied by the Germans is odd since he did not even know where the "Jewish centers" were in his native city of Leningrad. He was not considered as an informant on Soviet affairs by various specialist on Mongolia and Mongolian. I have not read the book reported in the Crimson but it sounds somewhat sensational. Richard N. Frye Aga Khan Professor of Iranian
Pushing the relatively weak Russian economy to keep up with the American arms buildup (redoubled in the '80s) and underwrite expansionism has led the Soviet Union into dire straits and the desire to lower the level of the arms race--an option made possible since U.S. policy is committed to the "containment" and not the "rollback" of Communism...