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...early 1930s, when communism still shone with the promise of a bright future, Margaret Bourke-White went to the Soviet Union to capture the seismic changes of a society bent on forging itself anew. The country was a mystery then, and her photographs and journal entries, excerpted here, laid bare the dedication and raw muscle fueling a blast furnace of a nation as it struggled out of feudalism. Sixty years later, TIME invited Anthony Suau to retrace Bourke-White's journey. If her pictures were the positive, his are the negative. The Russia that emerges from Suau's frames...
...restore some state controls over the economy during the transition to a free market. In another move aimed at defusing political tensions, Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Poltoranin, an archenemy of the hard-liners, stepped down. He wanted, he said, "to protect the President from mounting attacks from an opposition bent on revenge...
...half the population, must go, he says, or Latvia's culture will perish. The young woman walks away crying. A Russian man born in Latvia and determined to stay tries to argue. "You can't blame all Russians," he says, his hands shaking. Then a Latvian woman, her body bent from age, leans into the crowd to answer. "Take your factories," she shouts, "take your tanks, take yourselves and leave...
...bend-but-don't-break style of 'D' proved to be very successful. Against the powerful Penn rushing game, the defense bent so much it made Plastic Man look like Al Gore...
...nature of what the city manager does, he might be considered conservative," said Wolf, dismissing the allegation that the more liberal majority on the council might dismiss Healy because of his conservative bent...