Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...transitional chief say he has no charisma, no military experience, no long career as a revolutionary fighter. In other words, he's not Deng. But none of the other members of China's collective leadership are either. Today's top Politburo members are bureaucrats and engineers. In Soviet terms, Jiang would not even be Nikita Khrushchev; rather, he's more like Leonid Brezhnev. The others are no different, and that works in two ways. They may have no more claim to greatness than Jiang, but now that Deng is gone they can easily go after their present leader. "So long...
...that earned him the mock degree of "doctor of mimeography." He earned his true credentials, however, in Moscow, where he studied Marxist-Leninist thought in 1926. Then it was back to a strife-torn China to propagate the faith. Deng's first assignment, as ideological watchdog to a Soviet-supported warlord, fell through when his patron defected to the Nationalists. Deng's next mission was even less promising: the young communist was ordered to the backcountry of Guangxi province in the far south, where he was to organize ragtag rebels to seize huge cities. Deng went loyally, even though...
...almost at once. Though Mao's guerrilla strategy was in strong disfavor with the Moscow-influenced "internationalists" at Communist Party headquarters in Shanghai, Deng, who had become exasperated with Soviet-style conventional warfare, was convinced that Mao's tactics were right. From 1931 to 1935, as the two worked to establish a Red Army base in the south-central province of Jiangxi, a mutual affection ripened that was almost brotherly. When Mao was denounced and demoted by pro-Russian elements of the party as an "escapist" for advocating a hit-and-run campaign of attrition, Deng was ousted along with...
...Republic, Deng began a rapid rise. From 28th in the communist pecking order in 1945, he became General Secretary of the party and one of Mao's 12 Deputy Premiers in 1956. That was the year Khrushchev came to power in Moscow and denounced Stalin at a secret Soviet party congress. Learning of this indictment of a "personality cult," Deng commended it to his own party--a move used to discredit him in the following decade by the Mao-worshipping Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution. In truth, Deng was still loyal to Mao. Indeed, when Mao moved against...
...Russia from 1987-92 for more than $224,000. Only the second FBI agent ever charged with spying, Pitts could spend the rest of his life in prison. At the time he was accused of being in league with the Russians, Pitts was assigned to hunt and recruit Soviet KGB agents, and later worked on top secret documents and personnel security at FBI headquarters. He was arrested after an 18-month investigation, in which agents posed as Russian spies to gather evidence on him. Pitts' wife Mary, herself an FBI agent, played a role in the investigation, searching his home...