Word: caucasia
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...downs, never amounted to much until he wrote a book. It was not about police work as understood in Western countries. But for Communist police work it was just the thing to commend him to his superiors. It was called On the History of the Bolshevik Organization in Trans-Caucasia. Largely through fictitious evidence it disputed Leon Trotsky's charge that Stalin never amounted to much as a pre-revolutionary theorist. Beria's Stalin is always right, always on the Leninist beam, always out in front of "the toiling masses." Why did this crass flattery matter to Stalin...
...only the "voice of God within," they sought to live in harmony, achieve Utopia. They soon developed a theocracy which, though as narrow as the Tsar's and Orthodoxy's, was at least of their own choosing. After generations of persecution, they were exiled en masse to Caucasia...
Tolstoy. His letters to Caucasia decreed vegetarianism, communal property, no alcohol, no tobacco, no soldiering, no sexual intercourse. These decrees made the Dukhobors more fanatical than ever. The Cossacks tried harder to lash them into submission. Over this persecution Tolstoy, Quakers, Christian Socialists, idealists everywhere seethed, then arranged a Dukhobor migration to the untilled Canadian prairies...
...evenings, Georgians, Ossets, Inguschs and Armenians used to assemble in front of the bar in their colorful costumes, and in the morning the workmen's newspaper was better informed about the events in Caucasia than the larger papers in town...
...this was at the time when the transCaucasian "activists" were first forming themselves. "Their members belonged to small nations from all over Caucasia, mostly wild illiterates, nomads, warriors who could remember the days of the holy Imam Schamil...
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