Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desire, if possible, to concentrate the nation's attention and responses on its massive and impacted domestic problems. At the same time, however, he had no good news for the likes of the banned Solidarity trade union movement in Poland. He vowed his determination to "expand cooperation with socialist states, to enhance the role and influence of socialism in world affairs." That amounted to a reminder to Poles that it was precisely Soviet "cooperation" with the Warsaw military authorities that drove Solidarity underground...
Another Andropov man who seems destined for higher office is Aliyev, who hails from the small, predominantly Muslim republic of Azerbaijan, on the Iranian border. A KGB official, he reportedly once declared that Soviet corruption could only be fought with means beyond "socialist legality." Aliyev made his name as first secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party; he helped transform the republic's economy from the Soviet Union's slowest to its fastest growing. Among his innovations: productivity bonuses for agricultural workers who exceeded their quotas. "He is an exciting character, a risk taker," says Simes. "I don't know...
...years. The Soviet Union, Gorbachev said, had to make a "decisive turn" and switch the economy to the "tracks of intensive development." Hinting at the widening technological gap between the West and the Soviet bloc, Gorbachev asked his countrymen to push for scientific and technical excellence by applying socialist economic principles "in a creative way." Even within a planned economy, he said, there was room for "enhancing the independence of enterprises (and) raising their interest in the end product of their work." But Gorbachev also cautioned against letting the drive for greater material benefits disrupt "social justice," a signal that...
...message to the Socialists seems to be that survival in next year's elections depends, for the most part, on reclaiming the center. Perhaps their best hope in that effort lies with Premier Laurent Fabius. Over the course of his eight months in office, Fabius, 38, France's youngest head of government since Duc Decazes in 1819, has been working to give Mitterrand's government a snappy new image. He has, in fact, become the very embodiment of the government's passage from socialist idealism to managerial pragmatism. During his regularly televised fireside chats, he confidently predicts economic improvement with...
...seemed at one time that Nkomo and his followers were the major barrier to the once declared intention of Mugabe and ZANU to turn Zimbabwe into a one- party socialist state. But now Nkomo, ensconced in Matabeleland, his tribal home in the western part of the country, increasingly appears to many of his countrymen as more of a nuisance than the savior of Zimbabwe. There are several reasons for this, among them the fact that Zimbawe has begun to prosper economically. Also, Mugabe continues to court the country's influential white farmers, and he appears to be backing away from...