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...UNMENTIONABLE NECHAEV, by Michael Prawdin. The story of the youthful fanatic who became the model for the nihilist Verkhovensky in Dostoevsky's classic study of the ethics and psychology of revolutionaries, The Possessed, and who devised the bleak, dehumanized code of conspiracy and terror that became the model for Lenin's Bolsheviks...
...Michael Prawdin. Serge Nechaev was the student terrorist whom the Czar imprisoned and whom the Soviets would like to forget. This youthful fanatic became the model for the nihilist Verkhovensky in Dostoevsky's classic study of the ethics and psychology of revolutionaries, The Possessed, and he devised the bleak dehumanized code of conspiracy and terror that became the model for Lenin's Bolshevik Party...
...Prawdin. Serge Nechaev was the student terrorist whom the Czar imprisoned and whom the Soviets would like to forget. This youthful fanatic became the model for the dreadful nihilist Verkhovensky in Dostoevsky's classic study of the ethics and psychology of revolutionaries, The Possessed, and he devised the bleak dehumanized code of conspiracy that became the model for Lenin's Bolshevik Party...
...Fredericton (pop. 20,000), people were, said Organizer Richardson, "astonished, staggered, horrified, interested, excited, amused and maybe pleased." After a month the exhibition will move to London's Tate Gallery. Even in a big art center it should prove instructive. Picasso's nude and a bleak industrial landscape by British Primitive Laurence Stephen are separated not by a gulf, but by the vast sea that present-day artists venture upon. Beaverbrook's hundred provide a lively answer to an impossible question...
Higher & Higher. It would be helpful, indeed, if the Nunamiuts could change their diet, but in the bleak Brooks Range there is almost nothing but caribou to eat, and any kind of agriculture is impossible. The Eskimos could be fed on handouts of white men's food, which would destroy their self-sufficiency and probably their health, or they could be moved elsewhere. They do not relish either prospect. Says Simon Paneak, head of the village council: "We only know how to live here." Though he remains close kin to Stone Age man, he understands the problems of radiation...