Word: emigree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Medvedev singles out a number of people who have made notable efforts to discredit Solzhenitsyn. For instance, Culture Minister Yekaterina Furtseva helped prevent Solzhenitsyn from receiving the 1964 Lenin Prize for Literature, one of the Soviet Union's most prestigious awards. Medvedev also attacks Victor Louis, a roaming Soviet...
Food for Furs. Still, it would be grossly premature to count Hammer out, if only because his history of friendly dealings with Soviet authorities goes back half a century. The son of a Russian emigre, Hammer was educated at Columbia as a doctor but never practiced medicine; even as a...
Croats have also turned Sweden into an arena of terror for fellow Yugoslavs. They have taken to Mafia-like extortion, demanding payoffs of $400 or more from their countrymen, many of whom have become Swedish citizens. One young Yugoslav actor who recently played the lead in a Swedish television drama...
Of Nabokov's nine emigre novels, written in Russian mostly during the '20s and '30s, this is the last to be published in English. One regrets at once that there will not be more. Though a brand-new novel is promised for late this year, it will...
Unlike samizdat, which is forbidden, magnitizdat has not been declared illegal. "So far as we know, no one has yet been arrested for composing, performing, taping or playing the tapes in Russia," says Misha Allen, an emigre from Russia living in Toronto who has collected more than 700 modern Soviet...