Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, as the twisted logic of its name would lead you to expect, mandatory volunteerism has ignited battles. Some parents say it's their job, not the schools', to teach values. "It reminds me of something they used to do in the Soviet Union: 'Every Saturday, you will volunteer to help the greater glory of the state,'" says Barrie Ciliberti, father of four and a Republican legislator in Maryland's House of Delegates. But his side has lost so far in both legislatures and courts. Ciliberti and others have fought in vain to end the mandate since the board...
Pipes said that as a historian he is "queasy" talking about the future. He said the failure of American intelligence to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union should be "a cautionary tale" for future analysts...
...struck by the dismal failure of Sovietology in predicting the Soviet Union's collapse," he said...
ORIGIN: Developed at the CIA's behest during the cold war to spy on the Soviet Union, the plane was created by Lockheed's famed Skunk Works unit (nicknamed after the "Skonk Works" in Al Capp's comic strip, Li'l Abner).The aircraft made its first flight in August...
MOST FAMOUS MOMENT: May Day 1960, below, when Francis Gary Powers' U-2 was shot down by the Soviet Union. The incident ignited a cold war crisis...