Word: kharkov
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ukrainian Contribution. Russia's growing community of pragmatic, highly professional economists and engineers understands very clearly what has happened, and is sure that it has the cure-even if much of it has to be borrowed from the capitalists. Among the foremost is Kharkov Economics Professor Evsei Liberman, 67, whose quizzical smile masks an imperious and demanding intelligence, and who as much as any other Russian is credited by the West with initiating Russia's great debate. A stocky Ukrainian with a quick and witty command of English, Liberman is typical of Russia's new breed that...
Some two years ago, Kharkov Professor of Economics Evsei Liberman startled the Soviet establishment with a Pravda piece urging a switch from rigid, centralized Marxist planning to Western-style profit guidelines for factories. As Liberman saw it, factories would produce only what retail stores could sell. The proposal was more pre-revolutionary than revolutionary, and it touched off a storm of protest from orthodox Marxists...
Stuffed with Shredded Paper. Many of the details are unfamiliar and fascinating. Strategically, for example, Werth rates the Battle of Kursk (north of Kharkov), in July 1943, as "Hitler's last chance to turn the tide," and thus as important as Stalingrad the previous year. Werth is at his best in eyewitness accounts of Leningrad or of his tour (in -40° C. weather) through the Stalingrad area just after the mop-up there. The item about Russian children using the stiffly frozen body of a German soldier as a sled makes a one-sentence summary of the horror...
...kind of revolution. Beset by economic problems that stem largely from their doctrinaire Marxism, the nations of the Soviet bloc are turning to many capitalistic practices that they once roundly condemned. Last week in the pages of Pravda, Russia's . chief prophet of the "new" economics, Kharkov University Economist Evsey Liberman, renewed his campaign for adoption of the profit motive, calling for the creation of a new government agency to spread the idea through the Soviet economy...
...through the birth canal. Pavlovian psychologists in Soviet Russia took Dick Read's idea one step farther. Both fear and pain, they reasoned, could be overcome by conditioning. During the 1940s, Soviet doctors began educating mothers to be unafraid of childbirth, and by 1951 hospitals in Moscow, Kharkov and Leningrad all used the natural-childbirth method...