Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favor of Russia, since we always had the advantage of the atom bomb. The press, too, comes in for its share of criticism--he accuses a portion of it of deliberately distorting the facts. "Through Russia's Back Door" will not make easy reading for those content to blame Ivan for all our present woes...
Rachel Semyonovna fought as a girl in the Civil War of 1917-18, shared with her husband Ivan the later years of consecrated work for The Party-years she remembers now with bitterness. Ivan was taken in the purge of Old Bolsheviks in 1937, broken by torture, and later sent to die in an ill-equipped People's Guard Battalion before the German armored thrust at Moscow. She explains to Ferguson how the Old Bolsheviks, Lenin's friends, triumphed over Stalin in the first hour of the Moscow Trials. Until the Khozyain (the Boss) woke up to what...
...Gregor's mouth Novelist Blunden has put three stories, in the manner of Gogol, Chekhov and Dostoevsky respectively. Interspersed with these are chapters of action: Ivan at the front, stopping a Nazi light tank 25 kilometers from Moscow; his lieutenant, Kostia, dying in a hospital after a double amputation; Rachel's son, Karl, starving in a concentration camp to which he had been sent for remarking that Hitler's strategy was "cunning." Karl's hatred of the regime that imprisoned him hardens into conviction...
...CONNOR FOUND HOUR LATER BY IVAN SANDROF, 35, TELEGRAM STAFF FEATURE WRITER, FORMER STARS AND STRIPES STAFFER...
...IVAN SANDROF...