Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, a pioneering scholar who, at the height of the Cold War, first noted the differences between Chinese and Soviet communism, died Sunday night of cancer...
...1950s Schwartz was the first to publish a major study--his first book, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao--that treated Chinese communism as an ideology substantively different from Soviet communism...
...also discussed the changes in the refugee problems that occurred in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse...
Then there are the biological weapons. The 20th century saw the creation of great weapons based on the principles of nuclear physics; the 21st century will see great weapons based on the knowledge of DNA and the genetic code. During the 1980s, the Soviet Union used rudimentary genetic engineering to create incurable strains of Black Death (bubonic plague) that were resistant to drugs. This biotech Black Death was loaded into missile warheads aimed at the U.S. As biotechnology becomes more supple and powerful and as the genetic code of more organisms is unraveled, biologists will learn how to mix genes...
...idea that the government is supposed to be inefficient?" he asked. "The Soviet government had a weak hold on the public, but that did not make it less tyrannical...