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Word: mouravi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other step in the process. Joseph Stalin takes an intense interest in literature. Sometimes in the small hours of the night a writer may get a telephone call. It is Stalin. He congratulates the writer on the book and sometimes gives keen and thoughtful advice. One book, The Great Mouravi, a novel about Stalin's birthplace, Georgia, by a woman writer, Anna Antonovskaya, had been sidetracked by the publishers until Stalin called her up and told her it was brilliant and gave her some additional information on Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Engineers of the Soul | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

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