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...when he emerged as a symbol of hope for a new kind of Soviet Union. He is only the third non-American to have been so designated more than once. One was Churchill, who was also Man of the Year for 1940. The other two were, like Gorbachev, communists: Stalin and China's Deng Xiaoping (1978 and 1985). Will Gorbachev make it again? Stay with us as we embark on a new decade that promises to be anything but dull...
Scenarios for a Soviet invasion of Western Europe have always had a touch of paranoid fantasy about them. In the late 1940s, when Western Europe was weak and virtually defenseless, the Soviet Union itself was exhausted and overextended. Yes, Joseph Stalin "conquered" Eastern Europe -- Exhibit A in the charge of Soviet expansionism -- but he did so in the final battles of World War II, not as a prelude to World War III. The Red Army had filled the vacuum left by the collapsing Wehrmacht. By the early 1950s, any Kremlin warmonger would have to contend with a Western Europe that...
Former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, a world-class thinker about the unthinkable and nobody's softy, acknowledged back in the 1970s that a Soviet decision to attack American missiles would be a "cosmic roll of the dice." Yet Soviets play chess; they do not shoot craps. Stalin advanced several black pawns and a knight against one of white's most vulnerable squares, West Berlin, in 1948. Nikita Khrushchev tried a similar gambit in 1961, and he was downright reckless over Cuba in 1962. The stupidity as well as the failure of that move contributed to his downfall...
...faculty of Moscow State University, he is the first Soviet party leader since Lenin to have earned a university degree. He is experienced in weighing evidence and reassessing what Marxists call -- but often do not respect -- "objective reality." His rise in the party began long after Stalin's death, so he is less afflicted than his elders by xenophobia and acceptance of terror as a civic norm. His abilities were recognized by KGB chief Yuri Andropov, who offered him counsel and support. Andropov had been a Central Committee Secretary and, as head of intelligence, had access to a picture...
...Senate and 161 of the seats in the lower chamber, the Sejm. In June Solidarity won all but one of the contested seats. In August, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, editor of Solidarity's weekly newspaper, was sworn in as the first noncommunist Prime Minister in Eastern Europe since Stalin had imposed his system there 40 years ago. Society -- led, with appropriate irony, by the workers whom Marx and Engels in The Communist Manifesto had exhorted to unite -- had proved stronger than the state...