Word: antipov
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Another time, Stalin asked me to come to the Kremlin. His face was, as usual, absolutely expressionless. He looked at me and said, "You know, Antipov has been arrested." Nikolai Antipov was a prominent politician from Leningrad...
...stared back, at first not knowing what to say. Then I answered, "I don't know anything about the whole business. But I do know that Antipov could not offer any evidence against me, because we've had only a nodding acquaintance...
...think Stalin was trying to read something in my eyes. Whatever he saw there gave him no reason to suspect any link between me and Antipov. If he'd somehow got the impression that I was trying to hide something, well, the world might soon have learned about a new enemy of the people...
During the journey, Zhivago meets Lara's husband Antipov, now called Strelnikov, "The Shooter." His task is to destroy recalcitrant peasant villages for the Bolsheviks in the civil war that has broken out between the Whites and Reds. Emphasizing yet again Zhivago's inner quest for the truth of his own being, Pasternak settles the doctor in a town that is his symbolic namesake, Yuriatin. Inevitably, Lara is there; and despite his remorse, Yurii is once more unfaithful to his wife. On a horseback ride back from Lara's. Physician Zhivago is kidnaped by a band...
...sense he is inept, but he survives, perhaps because of that very ineptness. He is the opposite of that foremost hero of 20th century fiction. l'homme engage -the ideologically committed man. He is unlike Antipov. the revolutionary idealist who thinks he can remake the world and shoots himself when he finds his dream betrayed; and he is unlike his own father, the dead libertine, symbol of a dead Russia. Zhivago worships neither the past nor the forces that act in the name of the future. His philosophy is: "People must be drawn to good by goodness...