Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Understandably enough, Louis makes no mention of Moscow's difficulties with its own ethnic minorities, which constitute 53% of the Soviet Union's population, as compared with a total 6% minority population in China. Yet it was a revolt of the Soviets' restive minorities that provided a central drama a decade ago in the prophecy by Soviet Dissident Andrei Amalrik, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? After serving a term of exile in Siberia, Amalrik was allowed to emigrate to the West...
...terms of the Sino-Soviet propaganda war, Louis' book is so inflammatory that it could hardly have been published unless he had obtained approval for it at a very high level. The work's timing is surely not coincidental. The Chinese invasion of Viet Nam last February plunged Sino-Soviet relations to a new low, and the U.S. normalization of ties with China revived Moscow's anxiety about a possible Peking-Washington rapprochement, one of the events predicted in Amalrik's Will the Soviet Union Survive...
...once was arrested by Stalin's police, and Salisbury repeats the report that Louis operated a store inside a concentration camp. He emerged during the Khrushchev era as not only a journalist but a very well connected middleman. His entrepreneurial activities have included attempting to stage a pirated Soviet production of the musical My Fair Lady in 1959, trying to sell Western publishers an unauthorized version of the memoirs of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, and possibly helping to spirit out of Russia the tapes and manuscripts for Khrushchev Remembers. Louis' luxurious dacha, complete with sauna, clay...
Carter has consistently tried to avert a future crisis in which the U.S. might find itself aligned with the white-led regimes of southern Africa against black African armies backed by Cuba and the Soviet Union. With this in mind, the U.S. and Britain have been trying for the past two years to assemble an all-parties conference on Rhodesia that could lead to peace and black majority rule...
...myth of "one China." At present, the subject is taboo on Taiwan, mainly because of fear of the violent reaction from Peking that would almost certainly follow such a move. The second would be a threat by Taipei to play its so-called Russian Card, seeking Soviet aid to balance the threat from China. President Chiang spent more than a decade in the Soviet Union and his wife Faina is Russian, but his animosity to Communism in any form makes this course seem unlikely. The third factor is Taiwan's continued refusal to negotiate better relations with the mainland...