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Family life at Vyra began again, to last, apparently unshadowed, for nearly a decade more. In 1919 (young Vladimir was 20, and had recently inherited the equivalent of $2,000,000 from an uncle), the Bolshevik revolution forced the Nabokovs to begin their flight from Russia with only a few jewels and clothing. The real awareness of tragedy did not fully come home to them until 1922 in Berlin, when a night telephone call informed the family that their father was dead. He had been shot at a political rally, trying to protect another
...scorn that he once made use of when a clubwoman asked him what butterflies were for. Nevertheless, certain deductions can be drawn from Nabokov's writing. In Bend Sinister, he composed a picture of crude, lumpish evil-in-power, and he put Yeats' much quoted "rough beast" into a Bolshevik or Nazi Bethlehem. Thus Prospero-Nabokov always knew Caliban, whether he was known as Hitler or Stalin or by some other name...
FIFTY years after the Bolshevik revolution, the Russians finally achieved the two-day weekend. With it, they raised a problem long ago solved by Americans: what to do with the extra day. Naturally the Soviets seek a Marxist-Leninist solution. "We have nothing against your supermarkets and all your material facilities for leisure time," says Sergei Vishnevsky, a Pravda editor with long experience in the U.S. "But they have to be combined with high standards of culture, which your middle classes do not have. Material facilities are dead without the supreme blessing of culture...
...Fascism: Student Leader Karl Pollen and his dagger-wearing elitists "set back for a generation the liberal aspirations of the German people . . . The heritage of the German student movement of 1817 was transmitted to the Nazis." Communism: Russian students "stood back perturbed and bewildered," says Feuer, when the Bolshevik Revolution finally occurred...
...Soviet dismissal of the gunman as a schizophrenic has not put the Russians at ease. Twice in So viet history, assassination attempts have served as a pretext for savage repression. The unsuccessful attempt on Lenin in 1918 triggered the Red Terror, in which thousands of Russians fell be fore Bolshevik firing squads; the killing of Politburo Member Sergei Kirov-carried out in 1934 on secret orders from Stalin - set off the great purges, in which millions died and millions more were sent to labor camps...