Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour at the center in Coolidge Hall, about 60 Soviet scholars and local chess enthusiasts shot. questions at Kasparov, who in 1985 became the youngest chess Grand master in history at age 22. Kasparov, a full member of the Soviet Communist Party since 1984 and a Azerbaijani Central Committee member, will play an exhibition chess match in Cambridge today...
...must support change in the Soviet Union, but you cannot support the man who has now become a dictator," Kasparov said, in frankly-worded remarks about Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
...chess master blamed much of the Soviet Union's problems on Gorbachev. Kasparov, a former backer, said he became disillusioned with the Soviet leader in February when it became clear to him "that Gorbachev only wants perestroika of the system, but the Soviet people want perestroika of the society...
Kasparov expressed hope that the Soviet Unionwould soon become a multi-party state...
...chess champion also said he wished to forma new political party in the Soviet Union to"destroy the Communist base in the country,slowly...