Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Russia has undergone a feminist revolution in the mirror image of what has occurred in the United States. Natalia Baranskaia's "A Week Like Any Other" is an especially vivid example of the role of beauty and personal appearance in Soviet life. This story describes a week in the life of a Soviet woman. The heroine receives a questionnaire at work requesting information about how she spends her time each week. We follow her through a week and see her travel three hours a day on public transportation, prepare meals for her family, work in a high-pressure research...
...When I became a feminist, I decided to start pretending that I hated them--even though I enjoyed teaching young children for over five years at my church. For Russian women, it is a luxury to stay at home with their children. After being pressured to work during the Soviet period, being a stay-at-home mom is a completely new phenomenon for them. There was one group of people in Russia that obliterated my association between weakness and being a stay-at-home mom. The strongest people I met in Russia were the babushki, that is, the grandmothers. There...
...widespread disdain in Russia for the American brand of feminism stems from the pressure exerted upon women during the time of the Soviet Union. They were encouraged to be endogenous. If a woman reported to work "dressed up," she would get dirty looks from her female co-workers. In general, hair-dos and clothing were "modest and attractive" according to a book on female fashion Soviet style. It's not that Soviet women were expected to be completely sexless. They were just not allowed to assert themselves as any sort of symbol of womanly beauty. They were utilitarian bearers...
...Ames case, it was the CIA that eventually identified Ames as the mole and turned him over to the FBI to build the case for his arrest. Ames began his career as a mole literally under the watch of the FBI. In April 1985 he began visiting the Soviet embassy in Washington to pass secrets. FBI cameras that are constantly trained on the Russian embassy from a nearby building recorded Ames' visits. Though he initially filed the paperwork explaining his forays, he eventually stopped doing so and kept going back. But the bureau never thought to wonder...
...views of some of the smaller party leaders, including former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, who is also a voice of conscience in Israel, may prove decisive. These leaders have long warned that they will pull out of the coalition if charges of dirty work are confirmed. The Attorney General's critical portrait of questionable politicking, together with the details in the police report, may be enough to send Sharansky's immigrants' party and the centrist Third Way Party heading for the door. With 11 seats between them, their departure would topple the government, which has a majority...