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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bureaucrats. During 70 years of heavy-handed rule, Soviet administrations made every effort to standardize life and co-opt Islamic culture. The abrupt end of Moscow's power has left a yawning political and spiritual vacuum. Since most of the region's Muslims have predominantly Turkic ethnic roots, the tug is between two versions of the Islamic state: the secular, Westernized Turkey and the radical, anti-Western Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central Asia: Five New Nations Ask WHO ARE WE? | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...culture is dealt a certain hand by its own history," Brookhiser said. "The tug [of uniculturalism] has to be strengthened...

Author: By Nell M. Maluf, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Gates Speaks on Baldwin | 2/12/1992 | See Source »

Church concern has served to highlight the most interesting aspect of the growing popular veneration: the theological tug-of-war taking place over Mary's image. Feminists, liberals and activists have stepped forward with new interpretations of the Virgin's life and works that challenge the notion of her as a passive handmaid of God's will and exemplar of some contested traditional family values. "Mary wants to get off the pedestal," says Kathy Denison, a former nun and current drug-and-alcohol counselor in San Francisco. "She wants to be a vital human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mary: Handmaid Or Feminist? | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...mother of Jesus draws new devotees -- and inspires a theological tug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...remove them, some new form of union had to be invented, but negotiations were stymied by Gorbachev's desire to preserve at least a pared-down central government and the insistence of several republics on complete independence. The overwhelming vote for independence in Ukraine on Dec. 1 brought the tug-of-war close to a crisis; both Gorbachev and Yeltsin had said there could be no union at all without Ukraine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End Of the U.S.S.R. | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

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