Word: stalinistic
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...people served in Republican administrations that backed the authoritarian South Korean regimes that kept Kim Dae Jung imprisoned for his political beliefs, and they're unlikely to be comfortable with the same Kim Dae Jung as a popular South Korean president elected on promises of pursuing reunification with the Stalinist holdout to the North. Some Bush people were even whispering a comparison to Israel's deposed prime minister Ehud Barak, suggesting that Kim was pursuing peace with undue haste. Still, while the Bush mantra on the Middle East has been (as a corrective to Clinton) "We can't want peace...
...Gorbachev was writing about the economy, not about science. Despite Stalinist totalitarianism (which often interfered with science and scientists), science continued to blossom in the Soviet Union. They beat us into space and in countless other areas of science. And Western scientists always engaged with their Soviet counterparts on a plane of mutual respect quite inaccessible to their governments. Scientists, in whatever society, are a quirky lot, motivated by enigmatic incentives comprehensible only to their own kind. Stock options and corporate bonuses are no more fundamental to the achievement of scientific advance than were Soviet medals and patriotic exhortations...
...Situation Report: Once the most dangerous among the "rogue" nations in Washington?s gallery, the archaic Stalinist state is desperate to come in from the cold - if only to stave off mass starvation and economic collapse. And in its efforts to rejoin the real world, the North Koreans have the all-important support of South Korea, which is, after all, the state that those 40,000 U.S. troops are on the Korean peninsula to protect. But then there's the little matter of Pyongyang's missile program, which has long been the centerpiece of arguments for the National Missile Defense...
...means of extorting aid from the West. But providing food relief may have helped walk Pyongyang away from doing something really stupid, and this has been generally applauded by U.S. allies on North Korea's doorstep. But Congress isn't particularly comfortable about the idea of bailing out a Stalinist basket-case simply because it threatens to go ballistic...
...memoir assembles an all-star cast, with anecdotes and subplots playing through the grand events of the Depression and the New Deal, of World War II and the postwar years when the cold war set in, and Schlesinger was a leader of the American "NCL"--the valiantly anti-Stalinist, noncommunist left...