Word: partiinost
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...subdue him before, once locking him in an insane asylum for 19 days until worldwide protests embarrassed the government into releasing him. Medvedev's indignant dissidence (expressed in The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko and A Question of Madness) had marked him as a troublesome enemy of partiinost, that spirit of party orthodoxy that so many other Russian intellectuals, such as Pasternak, Daniel and Sinyavski, Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn, have been un able to accommodate. Medvedev's twin brother Roy, author of a massive anti-Stalinist work called Let History Judge, has also proved difficult. When Zhores Medvedev...
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