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...between living standards on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain. "I have a little threeroom summer cottage in [Quebec's] Gatineau hills," said he. "When I go there, I like to cook my own meals. When I was invited to Mr. Khrushchev's summer home in the Crimea last fall, it turned out to be a palace with 150 rooms. But then, he's a Communist Party leader. I'm not even a capitalist...
...action takes place among massive stone arches, against a brooding Verona-like background-actually the hills of the Crimea, near Yalta. To the tune of Prokofiev's rather overexalted music, and the gentle narration of a voice in English, the plot thickens speedily; servants of the feuding Montagues and Capulets meet and taunt one another into a brawl that fills the square. Soon the entire cast is introduced: Romeo, handsome and brawny; Friend Mercutio, here a playboy with wonderfully impudent toes; Tybalt, an arrogant, bloodthirsty Capulet; the stony senior Capulets and Montagues; and, last and best, Ulanova...
...early days of Bolshevism, leading women Communists tended to be of two kinds: either freewheeling intellectuals like the handsome and dashing Aleksandra Kollantay, sometime U.S.S.R. ambassador, who advocated free speech and practiced free love, or professional revolutionaries like somber, spectacled Rozalia Zemliachka, the civil war liquidator of the Crimea, and the white-haired oldtime Chekist Elena Stasova. Although Stalin liquidated thousands of male members of the party apparatus in the great 1937 purges, he left these and other top women alone. But Stalin did not trust old revolutionaries, men or women...
Carper's Progress. Ekaterina Furtseva is the kind of woman functionary that Communist Stalin set out to create when he refashioned the party after the purges. A minor party worker in Kursk and the Crimea, she was called to Moscow and sent to the Institute of Chemical Technology. She graduated in 1941 as a chemical engineer. But instead of practicing her profession, she and her technical knowledge were used to prompt and police other workers. As she came up through the Moscow party secretariat, her speeches rang with carping phrases: "The Kirov dynamo factory is seriously lagging behind...
...Western concessions had been for naught. "Matters on the Polish question have really reached a dead end," wrote Stalin. "Where are the reasons for it? The reasons for it are that the ambassadors of the U.S. and England in Moscow . . . have departed from the principles of the Crimea conference...