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...degree, but his fascination with Marxism led him to Switzerland, to an encounter with the exiled Georgi Plekhanov, the eminence grise of Russian Marxism; then to meetings with other radicals in Paris and Berlin; then, on his return home, to arrest, trial, jail and exile in Siberia. So Lenin was far away when the Social Democratic Party was born in Minsk and then nearly destroyed. But when he emerged from Siberia in 1900, he once again joined forces with Plekhanov and vowed to start a newspaper that would organize a rebirth of the Social Democrats beyond the reach...
...spiritless "parliamentarianism." When the Russian workers rose up in the largely spontaneous revolt of 1905, it was Trotsky, still only 25, who headed St. Petersburg's first soviet of workers and temporarily seized power in its name; when the Czar's soldiers crushed the revolt, Trotsky was sent to Siberia (he soon escaped on a hijacked sleigh). Lenin remained in Geneva, planning, maneuvering. In 1912 he finally had the strength to expel all the Mensheviks from his party...
...Singapore 30 years ago." But Lithuania depends on the rest of the Soviet Union for 90% of its raw materials and energy, which cost far more than the food and household products it turns out. Today Vilnius pays the equivalent of $6 per bbl. for oil delivered from Siberia; at world prices it would cost four times that. Lithuania is also a victim of the Soviet economy's "monopolism" -- the practice of turning a single factory into the sole supplier of a certain product for the entire country. As a result, many essential items are simply not made in Lithuania...
...Jackson- Vanik Amendment linking improved U.S.-Soviet trade to increased Jewish emigration from the U.S.S.R., there would be a different man in the Kremlin today. Or at least there would be a very different Gorbachev, one who would still be suppressing dissidents, sending refuseniks to Siberia, invading neighboring countries, propping up dictators, financing wars in the Third World and generally behaving the way central-casting Soviet leaders are supposed...
...invasion of Afghanistan had "blatantly violated" the law. By doing so, he implied that events like the 1956 Hungarian crackdown and the 1968 Czechoslovakian invasion would not recur. In addition, with a candor rare even in the West, Shevardnadze said of the controversial Krasnoyarsk radar station in Siberia: "Let's admit that this monstrosity the size of the Egyptian pyramid has been sitting there in direct violation of the ABM treaty." (His fealty to the treaty was in part motivated by a desire to drive a stake through America's SDI missile-defense program...