Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOSCOW: The Russian Duma Friday demonstrated its opposition to reform by voting 250-98 for a resolution calling the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union illegal. The measure also called for a referendum on resurrecting the onetime superpower. "The parliament has no real political power," says TIME's Sally B. Donnelly. "So they are looking for cheap political points, getting their names in the paper. The move is indicative of bitterness; many of the Communists and Nationalists in the Duma are angry about the ruined Russian economy and the loss of superpower status." The vote has raised tensions among reformers...
...Havana-area homes and began paging through My Truth, a book that tells how Mikhail Gorbachev, in opening the door to reform, failed to control dissent and wound up losing power. These days, Castro will tell anyone willing to listen how determined he is to avoid the Soviet leader's mistakes. As a senior U.S. official says, "There is nothing more threatening to him than a perception in Cuba and around the world that the old man after 37 years ain't what he used...
...increases lowered the standard of living for many Russians, and some 30 million, in a nation of 147.5 million, still live at or below the official subsistence level. At the same time, shops are full of food and household goods of immense variety. Lines, once the everyday nightmare for Soviet-era consumers, now form only when crowds try to get into the Reebok store and other specialty shops...
MANUFACTURING. The enormous military-industrial complex of the Soviet Union is slowly turning to civilian production. Hundreds of factories where Russians or foreigners have invested are turning out goods--cars, processed food, Coca-Cola--for domestic consumption. Hundreds still have not made the switch. The essential ingredient is capital, and much of it will have to come from abroad...
...Chechnya has resulted in tragedy for the Chechens, humiliation for the Russian army and political disaster for Boris Yeltsin. His nemesis in the breakaway republic is Jokhar Dudayev, 52, the rebel President, formerly a major general in the Soviet air force. Dudayev lives on the run, moving every night. Time's Yuri Zarakhovich spoke to him recently in a safe house about 500 yds. from the nearest Russian outpost...