Word: aleksandr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist side, Red Prince Souphanouvong had been gone for a fortnight from his headquarters in Khang Khay to celebrate the Buddhist New Year festival with some villagers. Two Red military commanders stopped off in Peking on their way to Moscow. Soviet Ambassador Aleksandr Abramov was going on leave after three years in Southeast Asia, hoping for a new assignment...
...Born. To Aleksandr Revkov, 35, Russian oil technician, and Aleksandra Revkov, 35: triplet sons; in Guryev, Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R. Names: Yuri, Gherman and John...
...Russia each month comes a trickle of contraband manuscripts. Usually handwritten in loose-leaf notebooks by pseudonymous authors, the books are smuggled to Western publishers via an intellectual underground. Last week two of these recently published volumes. Abram Tertz's On Socialist Realism and Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yesenin-Volpin's The Leaf of Spring, gave Western readers a look at Russian intellectuals' bitter disenchantment...
Yesenin-Volpin's pessimism and rebelliousness come naturally. His father, the great Russian village poet, Sergei Yesenin, was an ardent early Bolshevik, whose increasing disillusion with Communism was accompanied by a marriage to Dancer Isadora Duncan and a slide into alcoholic and narcotic torpor. His bastard son, Aleksandr Sergeyevich, was the result of a liaison with a Russian writer-translator, Nadezhda Volpin. Shortly after his son's birth, Yesenin slashed his wrists in a Leningrad hotel, wrote his last poem in his blood, then hanged himself...
Said Khrushchev's top cop, Aleksandr Shelepin, piously: "You sometimes wonder how those people can sleep peacefully. They must be plagued by nightmares. They must hear the sobs and curses of mothers, wives and children of comrades who perished innocent...