Word: nadezhda
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...Raisa's disadvantages is the lack of precedent. Lenin's wife Nadezhda Krupskaya was similarly well educated and strong willed. But she was a prominent revolutionary before she married and never played the part of First Lady. Contemporary examples elsewhere in the Communist world are uninspiring: in Rumania Nicolae Ceausescu's widely reviled wife Elena; in China the disgraced Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's widow. Leonid Brezhnev's daughter Galina, once hailed as the East bloc's answer to Jacqueline Kennedy, later achieved notoriety by associating with shady characters...
...elusive to most Soviet women as the pomp of the royal family is to most Britons. Hailed abroad as the new Soviet woman, Mrs. Gorbachev is perceived as her country's first female superstar since the days of Alexandra Kollantai and Inessa Armand, both early feminists, and Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin's wife, more than a half- century...
...More food in the stores, more meat, fish and caviar," replies Nadezhda Rybkina, an engineer...
...Every Sunday at Moscow's newly reopened Novodevichy Cemetery, hundreds of curious Soviets wander among the gravestones, searching for a missing piece of history. The quest usually takes them to the jagged, black-and-white monument to Nikita Khrushchev or the haunting marble bust of Stalin's second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva (the dictator is buried beside the Kremlin Wall). Since Gorbachev urged historians to fill in the "blank spaces" of the past, the pain of the Stalinist years is no longer a taboo topic...
...connecting sea. It is the idealization of "world culture," nurtured by the legendary Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. He died in one of Stalin's prison camps in the late '30s and was resurrected in Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned, the magnificent two-volume memoir by his wife Nadezhda. She died in 1980, and Brodsky recalls her life of outcast poverty and how she hid her husband's manuscripts in saucepans. In the end, her kitchen became a cultural pit stop for touring writers and scholars. She tired of the attention, Brodsky says, and looked forward to death, because...