Word: fyodor
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...Politburo Member Andrei Kirilenko, 69, an old Brezhnev crony, who has acted for Brezhnev during his recent illnesses. Kiril Mazurov, 61, at present Kosygin's standin, is expected to inherit the premiership. Potential second-stage succes sors to Brezhnev's job include such relative youngsters as Fyodor Kulakov, 58, who supervises agriculture for the par ty, and Konstantin Katushev, 48, the Party Secretary in charge of keeping East European parties in line...
...that Brezhnev will remain firmly in power until well after the Communist Party Congress meets next February. Indeed, Brezhnev reportedly delivered a secret speech to the Supreme Soviet attacking people who might be held accountable for the agriculture catastrophe. The most obvious targets were Agriculture Minister Dimitri Polyansky and Fyodor Kulakov, chief of the party's agricultural department. Both men have been touted as possible successors to Brezhnev, but it is now possible that their careers have been as badly blighted as the grain crop they supervised this year...
...under especially heavy emotional strain when he met Anna. In addition to his brother's debts, his stepson made extravagant demands on his dwindling resources. His beloved first wife had died two years previously. A bitter conflict emerged between Anna and his late wife's family for control of Fyodor's time and money, a conflict which she wins by convincing him to travel abroad with...
Anna was never able to understand the ideas on which Fyodor built his novels. He once sat her down for three hours and tried to explain "The Grand Inquisitor" (from The Brothers Karamazov) to her, but the chapter completely eluded her. His works are discussed only in passing in her reminiscences. But she did have a dazzling intuition of his character and behavior. It is to the personal, temperamental aspect of Dostoevsky that her recently translated memoirs are directed--and in the process, perhaps unwittingly, she reveals how she was able to keep him under her control...
...This week his fellow Nobel prizewinner, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, accused Sholokhov of plagiarism in a preface to a critical study of The Quiet Don* published in Paris. Solzhenitsyn declared that the real author of the epic tale of Don Cossacks in World War I and the Russian civil war was Fyodor Kryukov, a Cossack writer...