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Word: mishka (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...from a strong patriarch to a cowardly, deceitful, heartbroken old man. Gregor's steady mother expires in a moving death scene; his unloved wife, sick with sorrow over Gregor's infidelity, dies of an abortion; his brother Piotra is shot in cold blood by his Red cousin Mishka; his loose sister-in-law Daria, eaten by venereal disease, drowns herself in the Don; his sister Dunia marries Mishka, who becomes one of those insufferably coldhearted bullies who helped keep together-and poison-the post-revolutionary regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man in.War | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

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