Word: muzhik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most Russians of the virtues of social ism and persuaded them to take a class-conscious view of history. By its achievement, it seems to have given them more self-esteem and pride in their country than the mass of Russians have ever had before. Gone is the obsequious muzhik whose manners were formed by centuries of serfdom. No longer pervasive is the type that Lenin belittled as "the exhausted, hysterical, misery-mongering intellectual who, publicly beating his breast, cries: 'I am bad, I am vile...
...member Ukrainian Dance Company, predictably, was a smash. Like the Moiseyev dancers before them, the Ukrainians offered ersatz folk dances-works grounded in folk traditions but theatricalized beyond anything that a wandering muzhik ever saw in a village square...