Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Small wonder that U.S.-China exchanges, as Lilley puts it, are a "dialogue of the deaf." Weakened initially by the end of cold-war pressure to cooperate against the former Soviet Union, the relationship is in its worst shape since the Tiananmen massacre...
...State Warren Christopher arrived in Moscow on Thursday for consultations with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov. Christopher's reception in Moscow may be unseasonably chilly, coming on the heels of his reiteration this week of NATO's intention to expand its membership into the former Soviet bloc. The issue could prove troublesome for Yeltsin in the upcoming election campaign, providing anti-NATO Russian nationalists with political capital. NATO's plans to expand are not new. The process has been underway since 1994, and encountered staunch Russian opposition from the start, even though NATO has officially recognized...
...fierce energy of passive aggression drives--and explains--adolescence; in its grandiose moments it pulverizes empires. In the Soviet Union hundreds of millions of passive aggressives created a vast, vodka-soaked culture of subversive inefficiency, sly refusal and covert nonproduction that ultimately brought down the stolid slab of Marxism-Leninism...
...most serious religious schism in centuries is pitting the Orthodox Church of Russia against the Patriarchate of Constantinople, historically the most honored see of the Orthodox Church. The locus of the fight is tiny: jurisdiction over 54 Orthodox clerics in Estonia, a mostly Lutheran country once part of the Soviet Union. But the ramifications may be global...
...church has about half the Eastern Orthodox members in the world, and may draw in Greece and Serbia. And if Russian nationalists come to power after elections in June, the church's religious claim on Estonia may become part of a thrust to recover territory belonging to the old Soviet Union.Maybe It's The Hood...