Word: wars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officially named the "George and Abby O'Neill Archives of the Communist Party and Soviet State" after the O'Neill family, who donated the necessary money for the purchase. Goldman said that George O'Neill '50 of New York has always been fascinated by documents from the Cold War...
Mark N. Kramer, director of the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, said that while the $600,000 the O'Neills paid for the archives was substantially less than the amount the Russian government initially demanded, it still was more than Harvard was otherwise willing...
Goldman said the University has acquired valuable Soviet documents before. Perhaps the most famous of these is the Smolensk collection, seized from the Germans--who had stolen it from the Soviet Union--at the end of World War...
...really do see in a clear, candid, moving fashion how deeply the war affected him," Brinkley said...
...then, so it's a war. Russia has for 10 days camouflaged its objectives in Chechnya, but now it's given the game away. Initially Moscow said it had 30,000 men around Chechnya to beef up border security while bombing suspected terrorist bases; then it crossed those borders saying it wanted a 10-mile security zone inside Chechnya. But Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday that his forces now occupy the northern third of the breakaway republic along the east-west line of the River Terek - a fact borne out by reports of fierce fighting from villages deep inside...