Word: whats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Q. What should we be doing?
Q. Are you using the term "Central Europeans" interchangeably with what we would call "East Europeans"?
Q. When Gorbachev persuades the elite to go along with his policies, where is the upside? What have they gained?
A. Only a respite from the strains of the competition as well as an opportunity to address their internal problems and modernize their system. That is what Gorbachev and the people around him are hoping to accomplish.
A. No. There will have to be something very different. The pace of change, the scale of change, and the drama of the change are all such that we have to stop thinking in conventional terms. Perhaps there will be a Soviet confederation of some sort, much looser than what...