Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Clinton could hardly wait to summon reporters, and who could blame him? Russia's grudging agreement last week to a new European security pact will allow the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to expand eastward, right up to the borders of the old Soviet Union. "An historic step," said the ebullient President, with no hyperbole for a change. The accord between NATO and Russia, which clears the way for Moscow's former satellites to join the Western alliance, is the most significant foreign policy development since the collapse of the U.S.S.R. and has strategic consequences that will be with...
...Practicing his classic style of defensive politics, Boris Yeltsin said Russia?s agreement with NATO may undergo a makeover once he passes the document to the Duma for approval. The Russian parliament, dominated by communists and nationalists, already planned to add a clause declaring the agreement void if former Soviet republics decide to join the alliance. TIME?s Bruce Nelan reports that the Duma games, along with Yeltsin's highly-publicized campaign to present the agreement to Russian voters as a binding treaty that gives Moscow a veto over NATO expansion, may mean NATO leaders will call the Russian President...
...square-foot hall with walls made of amber in Peter the Great's 18th Century palace. It vanished during World War II, sometime after Nazi troops took it from St. Petersburg to Konigsburg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). While the German government claimed the wall panels were destroyed during the1945 Soviet invasion of Konigsburg, Russian officials charged that Bonn had hidden the treasure. While the fate of the rest of the room remains unknown, this small portion apparently was stolen by a German truck driver in the convoy transporting pieces of the room to Konigsburg. The 22-by-28 inch gold-framed...
...America, we have taken the opposite trajectory. We run from Donna Reed. We couldn't work in the 1950s. We had to be stay-at-home moms. In contrast to women in the Soviet Union, women in America have a long legacy as symbols of sex and womanly beauty: Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth, Doris Day, Marilyn Monroe, Jackie O. The list could go on forever. Somehow, though, this ability to be proud of one's appearance and to be an ornament has not been enough for American women. Neither has the weak image women receive as mothers been satisfying...
Russian women took care of their families during the Soviet period and that was their way of holding on to the only aspect of the private sphere to which they were entitled, the last grasp at a personal life outside of the Party and the "Motherland." In America, women are forced into the public sphere and out of the private sphere...