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...Fyodor Dostoeyevsky, however, tells us that the definition of the human being (he said "man," but in the sense of "the human person") is the creature who can get used to anything. Thinkers as far back as Aristotle, though, recognized how debilitating to one's moral character extreme poverty can be. Only the most moral of human beings, that is, can remain untouched in their integrity by the immorality or privation of their circumstances...
Though Gorbachev has reportedly expressed private worry about a brain drain that would leave too few educated citizens at home to build perestroika, emigration seems unlikely to take any great leap. Fyodor Burlatsky, a prime parliamentary advocate of the new law, estimates that 1.5 million people will leave for good during the first three years that the law is fully effective, not a major annual increase over the 450,000 expected to emigrate this year alone. Other estimates are that 2 million or more may leave quickly after the law takes full effect, but once they are gone, the outflow...
...director, Heather Cross deftly exploits the comedic as well as the tragic aspects of Chekhov's script. Fyodor Ilich Kulygin (Glenn Kessler) begins each of his scenes by asking for the whereabouts of his wife, Masha (Patricia Goldman). This habit, funny at first, becomes tragic as Kessler is revealed to be a man hopelessly trying to deny the grim reality of his loveless marriage. The alienation of the characters in The Three Sisters becomes so forceful at the production's conclusion precisely because it appears so harmlessly amusing in the play's opening scenes...
...general growled his warning over the telephone. As elite Soviet paratroopers were ordered into the Baltic republics early last week, Fyodor Kuzmin, the regional commander, rang up the presidents of secessionist Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia with a stony message. If your people obstruct the mission to round up draft dodgers, he said, the troops will shoot. Four days later, in an atmosphere of mounting confrontation, General Kuzmin kept his word...
...deposit his check in a bank there. But in 1974 the exiled Solzhenitsyn accused Sholokhov of plagiarism. He claimed Sholokhov had based portions of his epic of the Russian Revolution and civil war, The Quiet Don, on a manuscript written just after World War I by a Cossack, Fyodor Kryukov...