Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cold War is supposed to be over. The Soviet Union has disintegrated from a monolithic superpower into a collection of various semi-democratic states. No more nuclear missiles in Russia are targeted at U.S. cities. Presidents no longer speak ominously of the "Evil Empire," and popular movies no longer include Russian villians who speak in broken English...
...letter written in August, 1918, Lenin urged his followers to use mass murder and the display of victims' bodies to intimidate the Soviet people, Pipes discovered...
Lenin was a ruthless misanthrope, perhaps crueler than Stalin, according to Emeritus Professor of Russian History Richard Pipes, editor of The Unknown Lenin, a collection of newly-released Soviet documents...
Scholars of Soviet history have said Lenin used the term kulak to refer to so-called "rich" peasants in order to create class conflict among the farmers...
...photographs of an Islamic holy place that shares a spot equally precious to Christians and Jews. Another great city forms the centerpiece of St. Petersburg: Architecture of the Tsars (Abbeville; $95). Peter the Great founded it in 1703 as Russia's "window to the West"; after the hiatus of Soviet rule, that window is open again and marvelous to see. Back to Mandalay: Burmese Life, Past and Present (Abbeville; $55) captures contemporary people set in a landscape brimming with exquisite antiquities...