Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family have been moved south by the government in an effort to isolate an estimated 8,000 U.S.-supported contra rebels roaming through Nicaragua's five northern provinces. Villages are being emptied--some destroyed--in an operation that President Reagan, with considerable exaggeration, last week described as "Stalin's tactic of Gulag relocation...
...several historians at Columbia and Harvard have noted over the past years--before Gorbachev's rise became apparent--this decade offers major opportunities for change in U.S. Soviet relations because for the first time the Soviet leadership is not stained by the hyper-paranoia of the Stalin period...
...Columbia's Seweryn Bialer argues, Stalinism is more than the man himself, then the Soviet Union is only now inching out from under the himself of Stalin's state terror and economies-as as war ethos...
...Since Stalin, only Khruschey gave any hint that he could attempt: o back way from Stalinism's monomanic pursuit of the ultimate, indestructible state. Brezhnes firmly dedicated himself to the status quo, and one doubts that Andropov and Chernenko were ever more than a bad artist's conception. of the Soviet state and his brutal, but failed, attempt to impose socialism by force...
...nice guy" strategy was used by "Uncle Joe" Stalin during and after World War II, and by Khrusehes during his famous U.S. tour, but these flashes of life from the Kremlin have left us with little more than a few photo opportunities and some anecdotes for a presidential memoir...