Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which made him something of an anomaly. Outside the U.S. the 1930s was an era of dictatorship and, increasingly, of death. In the Soviet Union millions perished in the Ukraine famine of 1932-33 and the Great Terror of 1936-38. Hitler, meanwhile, was ending German unemployment largely by building a war machine that had to be turned loose eventually--and was, on Sept...
However, some spirited competitors have arrived in post-Soviet Russia to challenge vodka's historic supremacy. Beer distillers from around the world are trying to pry open what they see as an extremely lucrative market for alcohol. Companies like BBH, owner of Russia's most popular national beer, Baltika, and Efes are building $100 million breweries in Moscow and St. Petersburg to capitalize on a beer-thirsty market. This situation is quite a change for Russain beer-drinkers of the cold-war era, who were used to brews containing "water, topped up with detergent to create the impression of beer...
...that all sorts of ex-communists and other imperial-minded demagogues, including foreign minister Primakov, have hijacked Russia's nascent democratization and begun to question democratic practice and even the wisdom of dissolving the Soviet Union and its beloved empire, the Russians would not have handled an Olympic victory well. Russia is its own worst enemy, and a Russian hockey victory would have given them a false sense of superiority towards a former colony. For their own good, Russia badly needed to lose this game to the underdog--the same underdog that showed them the way to their hated freedom...
Fredo Arias-King, a graduate student in Russian studies, is founding editor of the Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization...
Reagan is also currently getting overdue credit for his part in winning the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union was such a surprise and our attention was diverted so quickly to new worries like the Gulf War and economic recession that Americans never really had a chance to crown the victors. Now they do. Reagan may finally be receiving the applause he deserves for his greatest offscreen victory--sending Marxism-Leninism, in his words, to "the ash-heap of history...