Word: russianness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ABOUT this time our good friend Buddy Commyovich, the Russian diplomat, comes sneaking up to the table wearing a trench coat and a touring cap pulled low down over his face. "Hey, guys," he whispers, "Spot...
...reason for the scholarly surge: the warming climate of glasnost created by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. But interest in Soviet studies has gained momentum steadily since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the renewed tensions between the superpowers over nuclear arms early in the Reagan presidency. Observes Russian History Professor James West of Trinity College in Connecticut: "We're one of the fields that benefit from disaster. Russian studies were almost lost with detente...
...dynamism is drawn from a spirit of glasnost, or openness, that preceded the revolution Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev is striving to bring to Soviet society. Moscow's venerable Institute of Space Research (known as IKI, its Russian acronym) now bustles with the comings and goings of an increasingly youthful, independent-minded cadre of Soviet space specialists. And along with them are growing numbers of foreign colleagues, many of whom have been invited to add their experiments to Soviet space missions. Visiting scientists need only a pass to wander the halls freely...
Wearing a stylish pinstripe, double-breasted suit, Roald Sagdeyev, the director of the Soviet Space Research Institute, began by disarming the group of Cornell astronomers during a recent U.S. tour with a folksy story about a Russian woodsman. Then, in a voice strained from singing When the Saints Go Marching In to Soviets and Americans gathered at the Chautauqua Institution, he discussed the dangers of nuclear weapons and the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or Star Wars. Finally, the trim, 5-ft. 8-in. physicist, who rarely drinks and never smokes, concluded with his vision for a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R...
Nearly 100 people attended the conference, which was organized by Marshall I. Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center and held in the Faculty Club...