Word: dostoievskian
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...dark: many were left alive, even after the butchery of the War, the massacres, of the Revolution. They found ways to live and ways to be happy. None of these people is the black-&-white type that propaganda likes: all are individual, characteristic, human. Some of them are Dostoievskian, unforgettable: Zavalishin, crafty workman turned executioner, who shoots down hundreds but cannot stick a pig; Grigory, stout old peasant to whom it never occurs to be unfaithful; Edward Lvovitch, who puts his heartbreak into music but cannot pronounce...
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