Word: hedrick
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From Kremlin bigwigs to local apparatchiki, Soviet leaders are now conceding what Western experts like Hedrick Smith--Moscow correspondent for the New York Times from 1971 to 1974--have known for decades: Lenin's experiment is a bust...
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...When Hedrick Smith finished a three-year reporting stint in the Soviet Union in 1974, he did not even dream of writing this book. In fact, he wrote a very different one: The Russians, a best seller that depicted a Soviet society mired in lies, corruption and fear. He was convinced, he recalls in The New Russians, that "fundamental change was impossible...