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Geneva-spirited word came from Moscow that Russia's great Author Feodor Dostoevsky, long dead (since 1881), long slurred by Soviet Communists as a reactionary and neglector of anti-czarist struggle, will soon be restored to the U.S.S.R.'s literary Valhalla. Next February the Soviet state publishing house will start issuing a ten-volume edition of Dostoevsky's fiction, not published in Russian since...
Fast & Frank. In the marbled, white-and-gold music room of Spiridonovka palace (once a Czarist millionaire's mansion), the antagonists faced off. Bulganin, flanked by Khrushchev and Molotov, sat with the morning sun at his back. Chancellor Adenauer, with Foreign Minister Brentano at his elbow, sat facing them...
...that the Communists are particularly happy over the word krasniy, which means both red and beautiful in Russian; that salami tactics, a term originated in salami-rich Hungary, means slicing away opposition gradually; and that absolutism (absoliutizm) in Russia ended, once and for all, with the overthrow of the Czarist regime. There are also such formidable coinages as shtur-movshtina, based on the German word Sturm, which means a last-minute production spurt in a factory to meet a quota. The volume shows that one word can have different meanings when used by Communists in Russia or in the West...
Oleg, say the Harvard psychologists, is essentially one of the stereotypes of czarist days: the ambitious but passive dreamer. The Soviet upper class is acquiring the same sheltered, privileged life as the czarist nobility. If present trends continue, the ranks of the Red aristocracy will be filled with more and more green-tinged Golden Youths like Oleg...
...Russian museums of modern art were stocked by Czarist merchants who wintered on the Cóte d'Azur in the balmy days before World War I and were among the first to patronize school-of-Paris art. Leningrad's Hermitage Museum and Moscow's Pushkin Museum between them remain the world's greatest repository of early Matisse paintings...