Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the aid was offered to all European nations--including Soviet bloc countries--it was contingent upon each country committing itself to working with each other country, virtually precluding participation by countries under Stalin's control, according to the scholars...
...Yevtushenko, 53, as a prominent spokesman for Gorbachev's liberalization campaign. The new work is theatrical but tame. The targets are either old monsters or the class of unreconstructed bureaucrats whom the new regime has pledged to replace. The daring urgency of earlier poems, such as The Heirs of Stalin and Babi Yar, has given way to all- purpose indictments of totalitarianism and effusions of universality. "I ; would like to be born in every country,/ have a passport for them all" is how he begins...
...agents in the U.S. and moles within the CIA, won him respect from insiders but little public notice. He has been credited with helping to expose Kim Philby, the British journalist who worked for the Soviet Union, and with acquiring the text of Nikita Khrushchev's condemnation of Joseph Stalin in 1956. In 1974, following disclosures that Angleton had directed clandestine mail-opening and surveillance schemes, then CIA Director William E. Colby demanded his resignation...
Like Solzhenitsyn's work, Children of the Arbat is highly autobiographical and is as much nonfiction as fiction. Rybakov spent his childhood at 51 Arbat Street, where much of the action takes place. Many of the book's characters, including Stalin, his private secretary Alexander Poskrebyshev and Sergei Kirov, are real people. Most of the fictional characters are also patterned after actual Soviet citizens...
...strike at neighboring countries and bans demonstrations calling for the release of political prisoners. But a public outcry forces Pretoria to beat a strategic retreat. -- Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone' s party suffers its worst + setback in 30 years. -- A long- suppressed Soviet novel recalls the horrors of the Stalin...