Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev also continues to advocate "new thinking" in foreign policy, which has been reflected in tangible reductions of Soviet commitments abroad. Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze is even plunging into the thicket of creating a Soviet version of the War Powers Act: he has announced that the new Supreme Soviet should have the right to debate any foreign political or military commitments...
PAIN. Director Sergei Lukyanchikov's critical documentary on the Afghanistan war. In one of the most striking scenes, a veteran who lost an arm asks, "If ((the Afghans)) came here to help us 'build socialism,' how would we react?" Answering his own question, he admits, "They hated...
LIFE AND DESTINY by Vasili Grossman (Knizhnaya Palata, 1988). An epic novel about the Battle of Stalingrad that some call the 20th century's War and Peace. Completed in the 1960s, the book was suppressed during Khrushchev's regime for daring to agonize over the conflict between personal freedom and Communism...
STORIES by Oleg Yermakov (Znamya, No. 3, 1989). Two short stories by a 28- year-old veteran of the Afghan conflict sketch a vivid and unromanticized picture of war that is reminiscent of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a book about American G.I.s in Viet...
...York City's Museum of Modern Art in tandem with Boris Frumin's The Errors of Youth, shot in 1978 but just completed this year. Eleven Soviet filmmakers are touring the U.S. with Glasnost Film Festival, whose 22 documentaries include robust exposes on Chernobyl, the Armenian revolt and the war in Afghanistan...