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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...superpowers. Bundy asserts that "Each government has been extremely cautious about the use of military force against the other. Stalin's blockade of Berlin and Kennedy's blockade of Cuba were limited, and neither led to open battle...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Surviving With the Bomb | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Glasnost has given Soviets an unprecedented look into their history. One result: rehabilitation for perhaps millions of people, including many of those villainized for blatantly political purposes during Joseph Stalin's long and dictatorial reign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Pardons for Troika Cons | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

Last week the Kremlin recommended blanket amnesty for everyone convicted by the infamous star-chamber "troika" courts of the Stalin era, in which three party and state officials had absolute power over the accused. The courts were the dictator's primary instrument of mass terror during the 1930s and functioned until his death in 1953. According to Western historians, the amnesty may apply to as many as 20 million people, a large number of them posthumously. Another post-Stalinist landmark: the weekly magazine Literaturnaya Gazeta published a detailed account of the role played by the dictator's secret police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Pardons for Troika Cons | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...Soviet environmental disaster has been a long time in the making. Beginning in the days of Stalin, ecological concerns were shunted aside in the rush toward industrialization. Valovaya produktsiya, a phrase that translates into "gross output" and is abbreviated as val, was at the heart of the problem. Industry bureaucrats have long been evaluated -- and rewarded -- only in terms of gross output. Rivers were fouled and forests stripped in the rush to transform raw materials into material wealth. No premium was placed on efficiency, and no environmental concerns restrained val. Trucks in Siberia, for example, are still left running every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: The Greening of the U.S.S.R. | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...really like Cheers. Probably the biggest plague of my life is all the time I waste. What I don't like is getting up early. In that respect, a Navy career has been tough on me. You know, the Russians do a lot of work at night -- at least Stalin did. So did Churchill. That life-style has an appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Admiral William Crowe: Of War and Politics | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

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