Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chewing gum, jeans and Western pop records. One of the hottest selling items in any market is information. Some hustlers charge one or two rubles for "a sentence." The mysterious sentence: a valuable tip-off that an item in short supply will be delivered to a certain shop the following...
...midnight, but the assembly line workers, whose average age is about 30, seem relaxed. At times they even stand around joking. Despite the ever constant exhortations to increase productivity, the Soviets have an easygoing attitude. Minsk employees, for example, are not required to dress in work uniforms on the shop floor...
Thus the incentive to keep production at high levels is strong, even away from the shop floor, and Dedkov insists that at the Minsk factory there are no discussions about whether workers can fulfill the plan. The talk is only about ways to overfulfill it. "If we work well, we can build more rest centers, pioneer camps and preventive medical centers," he says. "If we don't, we must cut back. Everyone from the factory director on down works with this in mind...
Today the most powerful state weapon against the dissident painter who cannot or will not join the Union of Soviet Artists-a closed Socialist Realist shop-is the law on tuneyadstvo (parasitism). An unemployed artist (and all nonunion members are, by definition, unemployed) can be punished with one to two years of prison. Apart from this, the "unofficial" artist must deal with a hundred resistances unknown to his Western counterpart...
...mathematics courses are required in each grade (including heavy doses of geometry and algebra, plus a year or two of calculus in the final grades). And 5½ years of biology, five years each of physics and geography, four years of chemistry, one year of astronomy, ten years of shop and mechanical drawing and up to seven years of foreign language (most frequently English and French). Apart from languages, the humanities are largely taken up with the detailed study of Marxism-Leninism. Zoya Malkova, the director of the Institute for General Pedagogy in Moscow, defends the standardized curriculum...