Word: sovietizers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...representative government. There must be a solid middle class; there must be the rule of law and freedom of speech. But a more elusive human quality is necessary as well: a drastic change of public sensibility from passivity toward active engagement. In a place like Iraq-or the former Soviet Union-passivity was a survival mechanism. The best way to live with a tyrant like Saddam was to draw as little notice to yourself as possible. A Russian friend once told me that he was taught as a child never to smile in public. You never knew when a smile...
...Sunday, January 22, renowned Russian cellist Natalia Gutman will begin her five-month American tour by playing a concert at Sanders Theatre. Gutman’s performances in the United States have been rare, as her travel was once strictly limited by the Soviet government. Gutman will be accompanied by her son, violinist Slava Moroz and pianist Dmitri Shteinberg in a program of four pieces: Brahms’ “Sonata N.1 E Minor,” Arensky’s “Trio in D Minor, Op. 32,” Schumann?...
Elbegdorj rose to fame as a leader of the pro-democracy protests that began in Mongolia in 1989 and led to the fall of that country’s Soviet-backed regime the following year...
...eminent American scholar of the period, does indeed manage to make the old global standoff seem, for all its insanities, like a relatively coherent and well-managed struggle. In this brisk, useful primer on the period, he reminds us that containment, the decades-long American policy of confining Soviet ambitions abroad, though a dangerous game, was a highly successful one. "The world, I am quite sure, is a better place for that conflict having been fought in the way it was," he writes, "and won by the side that...
...outset, no one could be sure that would be so. At the close of World War II, the Soviet Union had a huge predominance in the number of troops stationed at the edge of Western Europe. For a time, the U.S. had the advantage of nuclear weapons, but not for long. Franklin Roosevelt once assured Stalin that the U.S. would withdraw from Europe within two years after Hitler was defeated. Instead, faced with the need to protect weakened Western democracies, the U.S. would embark on the Marshall Plan, a bid to make Europeans prosperous enough fast enough to keep them...