Word: aleksandr
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...translator; of cancer; in London. Equally at home in either culture, she founded her own publishing house, Harvill Press, after World War II, then dedicated the rest of her life to introducing the works (many of which she translated herself) of contemporary Russian authors. She published the writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sinyavsky (Abram Tertz) and Evgeny Evtushenko, but was best known for collaborating with Max Hayward on the translation of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago...
...comes from Soviet Writer Yuli Daniel, who is serving the fourth year of a five-year sentence at hard labor for "slandering the Soviet state" in his short stories that were published abroad. Daniel is in a labor camp at Potma in the Volga basin, along with Fellow Writer Aleksandr Ginzburg, whose crime was compiling a record of the February 1966 trial of Daniel and Writer Andrei Sinyavsky (who is serving his seven-year sentence in another part of the same camp, also for "slandering the state...
...Soviet Embassy Counselor Yuri Vorontsov, who had died in a February collision while at the wheel of his black Mercedes 220 in Cologne. Vorontsov, claimed Spiegel, was the KGB boss for West Germany, and it put the finger on Russia's popular press attaché in Bonn, Aleksandr Bogomolov, 46, as Vorontsov's successor. It also made much of his close friendship with the Krupp group's press chief, Count Georg-Volkmar Zedtwitz-Arnim...
...three: Premier Aleksei Kosygin, Trade Union Head Aleksandr Shelepin, and Party Secretary Mikhail Suslov...
...CANCER WARD, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Soviet author uses a cancer ward as a metaphor for Communist society; the doomed patients reveal jagged, damning insights into the everyday enormities of life under Stalin. Not so successful a book as The First Circle, it is still a relentless narrative and a powerful, often poetic novel...