Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gilt surface of Misha's seemingly charmed existence begins to corrode. The gangster whom Misha works for starts to threaten his life, and, even worse, Misha is captured by the police and urged to implicate his friends for tearing down a Soviet flag in exchange for a ticket to New York...
...graduate student might be training with Gary King [who teaches a class in advanced quantitative research methodology] and he might be sent to [Director of the Russian Research Center] Timothy Colton. Colton has access to data in post-Soviet Russia which we couldn't get otherwise," Shepsle says...
These moves were central to the origins of the dispute. The Soviet Union provided missiles to help protect Cuba against such actions. As Defense Secretary Robert McNamara stated at a conference in 1989, "If I had been a Cuban leader, I think I might have expected a U.S. invasion." Kennedy is often praised for his handling of the crisis. But less discussed is the skill with which he hid the U.S. insurgency campaign against Cuba. DEREK MULLINGS Dubai, United Arab Emirates...
Indeed, perhaps the most defining moment in Canadian unity occurred during the 1972 series with the Soviet Union...
...President Boris Yeltsin, who in Soviet times had observed the day alongside his Politburo colleagues saluting passing missiles, made a TV appeal for an end to divisions, and then hurried off to Beijing for a meeting with leaders of ? uh, the Politburo. The only part of Lenin?s legacy still intact on the 80th anniversary is the date: The Bolsheviks swept away the Czar?s 10-month Georgian calendar, commemorating their ?Great October Socialist Revolution? on November...