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...Stop,' cried Anany Egorovich. The women disappeared around the corner. He ran up and blocked their way. 'You working?' The women were silent. 'So this is what you call work?' he repeated. 'Well, we aren't the only ones.' a woman retorted. 'If there were more kopeks in the kolkhoz, we would not have to go to the forest for mushrooms.' 'But where are we going to get these kopeks?' asked Mysovsky. 'You think they fall from...
...Seventeen years after the war we are still fighting on the farm for every pound of bread," exclaims Anany Egorovich Mysovsky, chairman of the fictional New Life kolkhoz in Abramov's tale, entitled Round and About. In these excerpts, Abramov follows Mysovsky on a day-long inspection tour of a typical collective. It is the middle of the harvest season, but one of the farm's tractor drivers shows up drunk and the other is stuck in a ditch; villagers are lolling about in the community bath houses instead of working the fields; for five months they have...
...Anany Egorovich bit his lower lip. He did not know what to do. Eight years ago he would have taken these women by the scruff of their necks and thrown them into the fields...
...What are the means? Anany Egorovich asked himself. The kolkhoz wages? Certainly not. sadly enough. Who could build themselves a house? Those who have earnings on the side. There is a custom in the village: if you work in a kolkhoz, look for a wife who has a regular job in town...
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