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...historical security considerations, has fewer options than it used to in dealing with reunification. But the Soviet leader may be less worried about losing East Germany as an ally than anyone thinks if, in giving it up, he manages to pry the U.S. out of Europe. Ever since Stalin, the U.S.S.R. has aimed at the domination of Europe and the maintenance of a security zone around the Soviet heartland. For most of the postwar period, the Soviets pursued those goals by raw military power and ideological control. Both have slipped as a series of military stalemates and the example...
When they met in the Soviet Crimea in February 1945 to plan the end of World War II, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin also set the stage for the long-running drama that may dominate next month's meeting off Malta. In effect, if not by intent, Roosevelt and Churchill sanctioned Soviet dominance over Eastern Europe. Now, 44 years later, George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev must grapple with the disintegration of that Soviet supremacy...
These professors had so much time on their hands that they actually met with students. During "office days," some even performed their impressions of Stalin and Lenin...
This Soviet quest for security necessarily meant insecurity for others. It also, as it turned out, meant the same for the Soviets. "One irony of history is that the security zone in Eastern Europe that Stalin created turned out to be one of the greatest imaginable sources of insecurity," says Princeton Professor Stephen Cohen, co-author of Voices of Glasnost. It precipitated the cold war, provoked an armed competition with the West and saddled the Soviets with a string of costly and cranky vassals...
BROTHERS AND SISTERS. The most acclaimed Soviet stage work since World War II, this two-part epic from Leningrad depicts Stalin's abuse of the rural millions. In Russian, with simultaneous translation through earphones, at San Diego's Old Globe...