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Word: moujik (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...village was not too small to hold a great and terrible hate. There lived one Grachev, a moujik (peasant), consumed with bitterness. He alleged that, when the land had been distributed several years ago, his fellow peasants had "played him a trick." He, irate, was prompt to swear vengeance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revenge | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

Last week his chance came. He had sold all his property and belongings. He had also sent his spouse to relatives for a vacation. Came a day when all the village was busy harvesting; Moujik Grachev felt in his trousers pocket, extracted a box of matches, toyed with it nervously, then flitted about the village setting fire to the houses. Back scampered the village population. Grachev welcomed them by firing a shotgun at them. Seventeen people dropped dead, many others groaned from their wounds, 13 of the village's 14 houses were burned to the ground. Grachev fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revenge | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...smoking pogrom of Kravno, her flesh-guilt cried out at her again as the demoniac moujik smashed a Jewish child on the wall before her face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atonement* | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...Story. She it was that had brought the wrath of Yahweh upon her kind little father. She, Leah, an outcast from Israel. The mark of the beast was upon her for meeting a vast shaggy moujik (Gentile peasant) with strong arms and tender lips in the willows where once he had come upon her bathing naked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atonement* | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

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