Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Even Iran's fanatical leaders denounced the Soviet invasion. During an audience with the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, Soviet Ambassador to Iran Vladimir Vinogradov tried to explain that his country had moved in Afghanistan against CIA and Zionist agents?two specters that Khomeini himself routinely invokes to justify his own actions. But the Soviet apparently got nowhere. A member of Iran's clerical establishment later said that the Ayatullah sharply told the envoy that "Brezhnev was stepping into the Shah's shoes and was heading for the same catastrophe that befell the ex-dictator. He said that the Soviets would come...
...Iranian exiles believe a dialogue between them and moderate forces would be possible. However, they are very antiWestern. A third contender is the Tudeh (Communist) Party, which has a reputation for loyally following Moscow's line. It is currently voicing all-out support of Khomeini because, its leaders disingenuously explain, any foe of America's imperialism is a friend of theirs. In gratitude, the Ayatullah has peralism is a friend of theirs. In gratitude, the Ayatullah has permitted them to operate openly...
Thus the picture that emerges from this book is of Pompeii on a far vaster scale. The photos are imbued with more than the familiar charm of things past; they are reflections of Russia's interrupted life story. That would explain the particular poignancy of the emotion experienced by the book's editor, Chloe Obolensky, as she studied the many photos she had unearthed from various libraries and private collections. She recalls in her preface that as the volume took shape, she was moved to see the photographs assume an unexpected "coherence and truth." Few readers can fail...
...their part, the peasants treated their admirers with skepticism, often jeering at the intellectuals who came to extol their virtues, explain their plight to them and exhort them to action. The peasants were equally skeptical in their reaction to yet another set of admirers, the Bolsheviks, who set out to collectivize the country's cultivated land, most of which had been owned by the peasantry on the eve of the Revolution. Many of the peasants pictured in The Russian Empire no doubt became victims of the enforced collectivization of 1929, whose mass deportations and man-made famine cost some...
...night before Mardi Gras. They spread through the streets, found Paumier at home, and shot him dead. During the early hours of Mardi Gras, the leaguers were driven from the town wall gatehouses. Tantalizingly, Le Roy Ladurie stops the action at each strategic point of battle to explain the sociology of the neighborhood and just why its capture was important...