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...that are almost always in short supply and high demand in Soviet shops. As she bought, Tyntareva also sold. Gradually she built up a stock of everything from gold rings, watches, wigs and jeans to velvet suits, umbrellas and cameras. The business prospered; she acquired a regular clientele among Baltic Sea vacationers, hired four assistants, and even set up a mail-order service. Unfortunately, though, Tyntareva was an economic criminal under tough Soviet "speculation" laws. Early this year she was arrested and sentenced to twelve years in prison. The penalty could have been death...
...kopecks (750 to 900), and rent for a factory-subsidized two-room apartment, including heat, electricity, water and telephone, is a scant 12 to 15 rubles ($18 to $23) a month. Medical care is free, and outstanding workers are eligible for factory-sponsored trips to Black Sea and Baltic resorts...
...novella Starry Ticket, for example, a group of Muscovite dropouts run away to the Baltic beaches to escape the crushing conservatism of their elders. Old guard critics were scandalized, as much by the "uncivic" behavior of Aksyonov's heroes and heroines as by their use of colloquial speech, mixed with underworld and concentration-camp slang, invented words and such Americanisms as gudbai, Brodvei and bugi-vugi. Funny, fresh and richly expressive, Aksyonov's idiom has been his contribution to the larger effort of modern Russian poets to rescue the Russian language from deadening officialese...
Nixon's world is a very simple one. There are Soviets and there is the West. The Third World does not exist, it is merely a set of Monopoly for the two superpowers. ("Trade you Park Place for Atlantic and Ventnor." "Nyet. Maybe ve trade Baltic and Mediterranean for Boardwalk.") Nixon rattles off lists of "Soviet conquests" as if they were playing cards or, dare one say, dominoes--"Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, South Yemen, Mozambique, Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam." Ambiguities, complexities, individual circumstances--irrelevant; nationalism, reaction against imperialism?--mere facades...
...from St. Petersburg and Moscow, across the Volga, the Urals and Siberia to the empire's frontier on the Pacific Ocean. The photographs then take the viewer back through Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Crimea to Russia's western borderlands at the Carpathian Mountains and the Baltic Sea. This approach permits Obolensky to include some of the exotic peoples and tribes that, like the Russians who colonized them, have long since lost much of their cultural distinctiveness. Another kind of excursion was plotted by the late English scholar Max Hayward, whose introduction covers the entire span...