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...carbine cut down the enemy gunners. This was World War I, and twice young Georgy received the coveted St. George Cross, awarded only for valor in battle. In his black tunic, blue breeches and patent-leather kepi with bronze double-eagle, he was a doughty figure in the Czarist army...
This week, in a scene reminiscent of the Czarist days at their most imperial, ex-Dragoon Zhukov, now a chunky, 59-year-old marshal, reviewed the crack regiments of the world's largest army. Standing in a pale blue Zis limousine, his broad chest loaded with decorations, his hand in a stiff salute, Zhukov watched the young cadets of Russia's top military academies goose-step their way through Moscow's Red Square in unwavering, platoon-wide lines. The cadets wore smart new uniforms; steel-blue with sleeves laced with gold-braided laurel leaves; their officers wore...
...army assumed a new and stronger role in Soviet policy? Not knowing all the answers, the White House reacted skeptically to Zhukov's overtures, but kept open a small hedge on the future. The past, in Georgy Zhukov's case, is also instructive. His hazardous climb from Czarist dragoon to Communist marshal, his differences with the military commissars, his fallings in and out of Communist favor, are significant clues to the nature of the instrument he has wielded with such success...
None of the six History courses fall in American History, but range from Russia to Canada in subject matter. History 158, History of Russian Imperial Policy, will be given by Richard E. Pipes, Research Associate in the Russian Research Center, and will cover both Czarist and Soviet imperialism. John J. Conway, assistant professor of History, will teach History 173, History of Canada from...
NICOLAS DE STAËL, 41, born in St. Petersburg, son of a Czarist cavalry officer, who paints in heavy slabs of color on the canvas (TIME, March 30, 1953), which he maintains is not abstraction: "I am trying to give as much as possible of myself with a maximum of discipline...