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...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...
When the U.S.S.R. was born, there was a heated debate. Lenin was of the view that the Union should be a federation of equal republics, while Stalin in effect favored a unitary state. Lenin's approach was formally adopted in 1922, but in real life things turned out quite differently. It's only now that we are beginning to create a new Union in the original sense of that concept. A truly democratic multinational state and the progress of perestroika are mutually interdependent; each depends very much on the other...
Pavlov, 58, spent his childhood in Velikiye-Luki, a town of 100,000 people 250 miles west of Moscow. In 1938 his father, a Communist Party functionary, was accused of exploiting the area's peasants. He was imprisoned by Stalin's secret police, and his library at home was sealed. "I walked by that room every day," says Pavlov. "I will never forget." As soon as he could read, Pavlov pored through a tome on Stalin's 1930s trials. "From my father's experience, I knew that many had been unjustly treated," says Pavlov, who dates his distrust for dictatorships...
Pavlov remembers his early schooling as little more than a continual drill in Marxism-Leninism. "I recall one of my friends being asked to analyze a political point," he says. "Our teacher said that two of his three observations were correct because they accorded with Comrade Stalin's views. But the third deviated from the official line. The only explanation for my friend's heresy, the teacher said, was that the devil had taken over part of his brain. That's what school was like...