Word: emigree
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shevardnadze's zeal is well remembered by Soviet Physician Galina Nikolayevna Borodin, a San Francisco-based emigre who lived in the party secretary's household near Tbilisi between 1973 and 1977. Borodin recalls that in the '60s and early '70s, Georgia was so rife with corruption that the only way...
"Gorbachev will do everything for the benefit of the regime," said Fridrikh Neznansky, a Russian emigre who spoke through an interpreter. "He is not a white knight to save the people."
Neznansky, who left the Soviet Union in 1978, attended the Moscow Law Institute at the same time as Gorbachev, from 1950 to 1954. Now an editor at the emigre journal, Possev, Neznansky spoke at the Russian Research Center about Gorbachev's "formative years" during and soon after law school.
There are two kinds of people: those who divide things into two categories and those who do not. Vladimir Nabokov is the first kind. In one of his earliest U.S. lectures, the Russian emigre told his classes at Stanford University that there were, essentially, "verb plays and adjective plays, plain...
The earnest radicalism of the 1930s has become familiar terrain for fiction. Chaim Potok, a chronicler of the factions within American Jewish culture (The Chosen, My Name Is Asher Lev), assiduously attempts to freshen the milieu: his title character and narrator is a thoughtful, believable preadolescent girl; her father is...