Word: kharkov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July 11, Genrikh Altunian, a Soviet army major and a teacher at the Military Institute of Kharkov, was arrested after a house search had turned up copies of Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward and issues of the Chronicle. He was expelled from the Communist Party, cashiered from the army and jailed in a KGB isolation prison...
Marxism-Leninism has proved to be both a bar to an efficient economy and a drag on agriculture. Under reforms first proposed by Kharkov University Economist Evsei Liberman, the Russians have chucked much Marxist dogma; there are now incentive bonuses for workers and farmers and greater discretion for factory managers...
What the three disparate raises reflect in common is the new economics, Soviet style, which is slowly reshaping the Russian way of business. Based on the ideas of realistic-minded economists like Kharkov's Evsei Liberman, the post-Khrushchev leadership of Brezhnev and Kosygin during 24 months in power has been nudging the Soviet economy toward a more rational system. One of its facets, as the shorter-skirted models displayed, was summed up by the fashion editor of the Ministry of Culture's newspaper: "The time has come when the customer can choose, order, indulge in fantasy...
...nefarious enterprise 20 years ago by stealing from a Moscow mill employing invalid war veterans. Later, he expanded his operations to whole chains of factories and retail outlets where he had contacts. "Moscow soon became too small for Rabinovich," sneered Trud. He "extended his tentacles" to stores in Kharkov, Kiev and other cities. As Trud told it, he amassed profits exceeding $1,000,000, which he invested in "gold, government bonds and other valuables...
After a month in Kharkov, the U.S. exhibit, which is being transported in a special train provided by the Kremlin, will pack up its tool sets and head to the Lower Don city of Rostov and thence to Erevan, capital of Soviet Armenia. Inaugurating the display in Kharkov, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Foy D. Kohler noted that "at a time when political relations between our governments are not as good as they might be," such exhibits "help create a climate of understanding and good will between our two peoples" that "cannot but facilitate the search for solutions to political problems...