Word: nikolais
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nikolai Yezhov, head of the secret police from 1936 to 1938; he was replaced by Lavrenty Beria...
Most galling to Solzhenitsyn was the Christian Science Monitor interview with his boyhood friend Nikolai Vitkevich, who was summoned by Novosti from his home in the Caucasus to Moscow to talk with the Monitor's correspondent. Vitkevich accused Solzhenitsyn of being guilty of the same crime of informing on friends for which the author damns others in Gulag...
...Peace. Part 2 of the BBC's elaborate and expensive production of the Russian classic centers on Andrei and Nikolai and their experiences in the Battle of Austerlitz. CH.2. 8:30 p.m. Color...
...mournful formalism about Akhmatova's poetry, a quality that shaped her sentiments in much the way that the laws of nature dictate the beauty of crystals. Her life is reflected in the cold facets of her art. Early poems tell of her unhappy marriage to the Russian poet, Nikolai Gumilyov. A short poem dated 1911 ends: He couldn't stand bawling brats,/ raspberry jam with his tea,/ or womanish hysteria . . . And he was tied...
...certainly enhance Brezhnev's prestige and position in the Soviet Union. Until recently the Moscow hierarchy was a determinedly collective leadership. Brezhnev's dealings are still sharply defined within the perimeters set by the Politburo. But since the last summit, when he shared the spotlight with President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Kosygin, he has handled the show alone. In a major Politburo shake-up in April, he dispatched two of the strongest opponents of his policies. His official job - General Secretary of the Communist Party - does not entitle him to so much prominence. (Unlike Stalin and Khrushchev...