Word: grusha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sergei was a new Russian, a peasant who had fought in the War and the Revolution, had become a power in his native village and then graduated to a higher job in Moscow. He had abandoned his family, who feared and hated him, his peasant wife Grusha, who feared and loved him in the old peasant way. Sergei was a believing, practicing Communist, with nothing but hatred for the old order, with no time or interest for anything but the present and the future. Then in 'Moscow he met Ludmilla, a member of the intelligentsia-to Sergei, a "lady...