Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chemical weapons accord will open U.S. and Soviet arsenals and plants to cross-inspection and the two sides will exchange data on the deadly weapon...
Additionally, the United States has agreed tothe easing of restrictions on travel in the SovietUnion and by Soviet visitors to America...
...Baltic republics, it is often said, are the "laboratory" of Mikhail Gorbachev's experiment in liberalization. The metaphor captures the exhilaration and ominousness of what is happening, both there in the Baltics and throughout the U.S.S.R. Glasnost, elections and free-market economics will help save the Soviet system from itself, or the mixture will explode...
...white documentary films of what it was like 50 years ago, before their lands were seized by Stalin, invaded by Hitler, then colonized by the Kremlin. They remember themselves as having been self-reliant yet outward looking. These are among the virtues that Gorbachev is now preaching for the Soviet Union as a whole. He is a Westernizer, in the tradition of an enlightened but ultimately frustrated school of 19th century Russian reformers. The Baltics are already the most Westernized of the 15 Soviet republics, and they are eager to become more...
...Soviet economy, all but bankrupt when Gorbachev came into office nearly five years ago, has actually deteriorated. He is beginning to get the blame. He desperately needs to show that perestroika is working somewhere, and the Baltics may be the best chance...