Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such patriots, the greatest threat to the motherland comes from "radical liberals" who are plotting to seize power. The nationalists point fingers at members of the reformist Interregional Group of parliamentary Deputies, such as Moscow populist Boris Yeltsin and historian Yuri Afanasyev, and at staunch glasnost editors like Yegor Yakovlev of the weekly Moscow News. But Enemy No. 1 remains Politburo liberal Alexander Yakovlev. They have never forgiven him for a 1972 article that blasted writers who glorified Russia's peasant past -- a risky political act that earned Yakovlev exile as Ambassador to Canada until he returned to Moscow...
...traditionally the most staunch supporter of Stalinism, views Gorbachev most harshly. "His policies can only weaken the Soviet Union," says Doares. "We hope that he will turn it around or that he will be kicked out and others will turn it around...
...staff position attempts to point out many ironies in the American system that have been magnified by the changes in Eastern Europe. It is more ironic that at this time of ideological change, staunch liberals call on the government to reassess its ideology, but do not do so themselves...
Gorbachev's chief political rival, Politburo member Yegor Ligachev, had a darker name for it: "the beginning of the end." That gloomy prognosis suggests that Gorbachev will meet with staunch resistance in conservative quarters if he bows to Lithuania. Andrei Makarov, a well-placed Moscow lawyer, says that the conservatives are milking the messy political situation and that Gorbachev was actually backed into going to Lithuania when, on a suggestion from opposition leader Boris Yeltsin, the Central Committee voted for Gorbachev to head the delegation. In Washington, however, a top Kremlinologist cautions that any talk of Gorbachev's political demise...
...year came to an end, events reached a velocity that left onlookers giddy and made even some staunch anticommunists in the West applaud a bit less gleefully and start worrying that perhaps the resulting instability would be a greater threat to world peace than the old, seemingly monolithic communist menace. Yet once it happened, the whole spectacle had a look of something like inevitability. The governments of Eastern Europe had never been more than hollow administrations installed and maintained by Moscow's armed forces. They were rejected as Marxist, but even more as Russian, a double affront to the proud...