Word: kataev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ukraine's rich, black soil now produces sugar beets, flax, cotton. Fully 96% of the land is now collectivized. From the Ukraine come some of the Soviet's best-known figures: Alexei Stakhanov, author of the speed-up system, Maria Demchenko, champion sugar-beet raiser, Valentin Kataev, Soviet author. The Ukrainian language, outlawed by the Tsar, is not only now allowed but fostered...
PEACE IS WHERE THE TEMPESTS BLOW -Valentine Kataev-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). The story of two boys who become involved in the 1905 Russian Revolution when they hide a fugitive from the mutinous cruiser Potemkin; by the author of Time, Forward...
...CHAOS - Ilya Ehrenbourg - Holt ($2.50). Another we'd-die-for-the-dear-old-steel-plant novel; of the same order but not nearly as good as Kataev's Time, Forward! (TIME...
...sees Russian letters now as "a mirthless desert waste inhabited by a few sincere fanatics and a horde of unexampled experts in bootlick, blackmail and blatherskite." As victims of this Inquisition he cites the late Sergei Yessenin and Vladimir Maiakovsky (both suicides) ; the conversion of "the mirthful satirist, Valentine Kataev . . . into a faithful Sunday School moralist of the five-year plan"; the groveling recantation of Panteleimon Romanov; the humiliation of Boris Pilnyak, president of the Russian Authors' League, who was forced to save his skin by rewriting a "harmful" book into a "harmless" one; the refusal of Isaac Babyel...
TIME, FORWARD!-Valentine Kataev- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). ''And it is not for nothing that Gorky constantly repeats. Write the history of factories and plants. . . ., The football sweater of the shock-brigader, the kerchief md ribbons of a young Communist girL the passing banner of the shock-brigade, the childish poster with its turtle or its steam engine, or the torn canvas trousers-are they not a thousand, thousand times more precious to us than Danton's brown frockcoat, Desmoulins' overturned chair, the Phrygian night cap, the order for arrest signed by the blue hands of Robespierre...