Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...therapy but by a combination of three other things. First, the pain of communism's collapse, which was there well before the reformers. Second, the incredible inconsistency of policy because reformers have been battling conservatives for two years and have been unable to implement a strong reform program. Third, Western help never came and never helped cushion the change. ((U.S. Deputy Secretary of State)) Strobe Talbott did a terrible disservice to the reformers with his glib quip that there had been too much shock and not enough therapy. That was not U.S. policy, but boy, did it hurt Russian reformers...
...speech created a sensation. Western delegates were stunned -- until Kozyrev explained an hour later that he was playacting. The speech, he said, was one Moscow hard-liners would deliver were they to seize power. He was warning of the dark future awaiting the world should Yeltsin fall...
...gave bear stroking a try. It did not work. Despite our extraordinary deference to Russian national feelings, the antireform and anti-Western parties did exceptionally well in free elections. Yeltsin is accommodating to reality. Time for us to follow suit...
...placed some of the blame for the reformers' defeat on Western policy towards Russia's reform efforts. "Western assistance was promised but never came...The reformers never got the backing they needed," he said...
...program, which divides funding between undergraduate and graduate work, would enable students to pursue studies in the languages and cultures of countries other than the United States and Western Europe...