Word: severyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Columbia Sovietologist Severyn Bialer points out, if the Soviets were to try developing a wide spectrum of advanced technology on their own, they would have to give Russian scientists a freer climate of inquiry and increased intellectual exchanges with the outside world. The Kremlin's leaders are aware that West German Chancellor Willi Brandt, France's Pompidou and other Western statesmen hope to use trade as a means of converting Soviet society into one that would be consumer-oriented and less militant. But the Soviets are interested in trade only to enhance their economic strength and political power...
...borders, which at least partly explained Moscow's readiness to sign a nonaggression pact with West Germany. In the Middle East, on the other hand, it is relatively cheap to keep things tense as long as a major conflict with the U.S. can be avoided. As Columbia University Sovietologist Severyn Bialer says, Moscow knows that "a state of crisis is the only guarantee of a continued Soviet influence among the Arab states...
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