Word: russianness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article last Monday on a study of the Soviet legal system incorrectly quoted Lowry Wyman, a fellow at the Russian Research Center. Wyman actually said in the Soviet Union, "...there is a tendency to have the courts run by the administration rather than the judiciary...
Until recently, the battalions of Marxism seemed to have the upper hand over the soldiers of the Cross. In the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Lenin had pledged toleration but delivered terror. "Russia turned crimson with the blood of martyrs," says Father Gleb Yakunin, Russian Orthodoxy's bravest agitator for religious freedom. In the Bolsheviks' first five years in power, 28 bishops and 1,200 priests were cut down by the red sickle. Stalin greatly accelerated the terror, and by the end of Khrushchev's rule, liquidations of clergy reached an estimated 50,000. After World...
...spacious ceremonial library of the 16th century Apostolic Palace, the czar of world atheism, Mikhail Gorbachev, will visit the Vicar of Christ, Pope John Paul II. Before delivering formal speeches in the presence of their entourages, the two East Europeans will sit down alone to chat in Russian without interpreters...
...There are these kinds of sudden bursts of activity and, sure, people are looking for some kind of specialist to say something," says Marshall I. Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center who is himself an oft-quoted economist...
Adam B. Ulam, director of the Russian Research Center, said the two leaders are also likely to discuss the situation in Germany. Last week, West German leader Helmut Kohl proposed a "federation" between East and West Germany...