Word: kharkov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early 1960s, Kharkov University Professor Yevsei Liberman argued that profit, not production quotas, should be considered the key index of efficiency and that a degree of local managerial autonomy should be permitted. For a brief period, Brezhnev & Co. went along with his ideas. As British Sovietologist Leonard Schapiro notes, "Communist regimes are always willing to yield to economic reform if it will stop the people from demanding political reform. [But] you can't reform an economic system without reforming it politically as well." Brezhnev soon concluded that Libermanism might ultimately lead to liberalism, or something equally loathsome, and the reforms...
...Esther Aisenstadt, who had taught English for 23 years at an advanced institute in Moscow, was discharged shortly after she applied for a visa. Alek Volkov, 33, a professor of piano at the Kharkov conservatory, was demoted to page turner for other professors. The KGB also regularly searches the homes of visa applicants and sometimes carts them off to jail on trumped-up charges...
...places have names: Belgorod, Kharkov, Kiev. Catastrophe follows catastrophe. But finally, like war itself, The Forgotten Soldier obliterates time and space into a pure throbbing pain whose only limit is death or madness...
...asylum in Israel. Many Sovietologists suspect that the eleven walked into a trap prepared by the KGB, the Soviet secret police. For one thing, they were arrested before they even set foot aboard the plane. Within an hour after their arrest, 40 Jewish homes from Riga to distant Kharkov were ransacked by policemen with search warrants. During the next six months, in several Soviet cities there were large-scale arrests of Jews, nine of whom are scheduled to be tried next month...
...Lenin celebrations, he enjoyed a sudden burst of publicity that struck many Western diplomats as extremely unusual. Three times in four days Brezhnev appeared prominently-and usually alone-on Soviet television. Nothing like it had been seen in Russia since Khrushchev's days. While Brezhnev spoke in a Kharkov tractor factory, where he awarded the Order of Lenin to the workers, the cameras flashed back and forth from his face to huge portraits of Lenin hanging in the hall. As sustained applause greeted the very mention of his name, the TV screens showed Brezhnev embracing officials, kissing women factory...