Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shelves might also help revive the vanished work ethic and boost productivity by establishing a link between earning money and being able to buy desirable merchandise. That link was severed in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s, when Lenin's relatively liberal New Economic Policy was replaced by Stalin's industrial planning and forced collectivization of agriculture...
With new urgency, an old joke is making the rounds in Moscow. It may not be a knee slapper, but the times make it worth retelling. Shifts in Soviet leadership have historically moved from the bald to the hirsute: from the chrome-dome Lenin to the brush-cut Stalin; from Khrushchev to Brezhnev; from Andropov to Chernenko. Which brings everyone to Mikhail Gorbachev, who is nearly as bald as a darning egg, and to the upstart Boris Yeltsin, whose mane of graying locks ruffles conspicuously these days in the winds of change...
...exposed to a wide variety of goods that they had not seen before. It's only natural that they develop consumer envy and try to keep up with the Joneskys. Even the government is getting in on the act. The Central Committee has started renting out government dachas, including Stalin's country house on the Black...
...year tenure at Boston University has produced a clear improvement in the institution, both academically and financially. But his combativeness has left the university in a state of "enervative calm" because, says one professor, "people are too tired to fight anymore." Silber handles the university's board "like Stalin worked the Politburo," in the words of one faculty member. He has reduced faculty and students to tears with his explosive temper and bruising classroom behavior. During the 1970s he dismissed undergraduates who published a student newspaper called bu exposure as "short-pants communists...
...England's Keston College, Filaret's election would have sent "the strongest possible anti-Catholic signal to the Vatican" just six months after Gorbachev visited the Pope. The Kiev prelate's hostility to Rome has greatly complicated the bitter fight in the western Ukraine over Catholics' seizing churches that Stalin handed to the Orthodox...