Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newly relaxed travel restrictions, the two are hoping to take their creations to New York City this fall. Who knows? If the hammer-and-sickle designs become popular enough in the West, they may wind up as eagerly sought after items in a place that already covets such Western garb as T-shirts and dungarees: the Soviet Union...
What the medieval silk-and-spice caravans were to Western Europe, Flight 30 is to Soviet consumers today. The few who can afford the 1,762-ruble ($2,800) round-trip ticket gain an opportunity to outfit their homes with otherwise unavailable dream goods. The Soviet government, which officially frowns on such lavish spending of hard currency, limits how many rubles its citizens can change into dollars for their trip (7 rubles, or $11.20, a day). But they manage to raise the cash. A favored scheme is to carry jewelry to sell...
...more theoretical level, perestroika has been attacked by conservative intellectuals who improbably combine a nationalist nostalgia for Russian Orthodoxy and the Stalin era with a xenophobic hatred of corrupt Western influences on Soviet life. Many of these critics belong to the Writers' Union of the Russian Federal Republic, the largest of the U.S.S.R.'s 15 constituent republics. The literary monthly Nash Sovremennik has denounced rock music and beauty pageants as demeaning influences on Russian culture. Such writers as Yuri Bondarev and Vasily Belov have attacked the de-Stalinization process for defaming a period when, despite Stalin's tyranny, the Soviet...
...past, Soviet bands often shamelessly copied popular Western styles, but Sukachev set out to create a uniquely Soviet sound, something kids could dance to. Although a punk rocker at heart, Sukachev added a four-piece horn section to the driving rhythm-and-blues backup of lead guitarist Kirill Trusov and bass player Sergei Galanin. The result is a slick multi-generational hybrid, the Talking Heads meet Count Basie, the Andrews Sisters on acid...
After the U.S.S.R. put out the welcome mat two years ago to attract joint ventures with Western firms, hundreds of business executives rushed to Moscow. Many of them inked deals to produce such wares as shoes and pizza, computer software and fertilizer. But doing business in the Soviet Union has presented more challenges than capitalists imagined. The road to perestroika's pot of gold is filled with bureaucratic potholes...