Word: pushkins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUSHKIN by David Magarshack. 320 pages. Grove...
...Petersburg (Russia's capital until the honor was ceded to Moscow in 1918) and its cosmopolitan, cultural effervescence, which stirred not only Adolf Hitler's ire but the enduring suspicions of a xenophobic Georgian peasant, Joseph Stalin. The Paris of the Baltic, the city of Pushkin and Dostoevsky, Leningrad stood, in Salisbury's words, as "the invisible barrier between the end of Russia and the beginning of Europe." It was a prime military and propaganda target for Hitler's surging armies when, in June 1941, the Germans suddenly loosed Operation Barbarossa against their erstwhile Russian allies...
Third for the Chair. But the champagne (which the poet drinks exclusively) flowed on, and pretty girls flocked to him, like so many pigeons around the statue in Moscow's Pushkin Square. His poetry began to show the strain of his public posturings. Increasingly facile and bombastic, his work declined in quality in proportion to his rise as a political personality. It gave him some moments of self-doubt, as when he wrote...
...love my country and my people, and I am a modest inheritor of the traditions of Russian literature, of such writers as Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn. These traditions have taught me that silence is sometimes a disgrace...
...Moscow's Pushkin Square was thronged with workers heading homeward for their evening borsch. Suddenly two pacifists, an American girl and an Englishman, appeared and began handing out leaflets in Russian urging the startled recipients to take "any peaceful action in your power" to bring about the withdrawal of Soviet and other Warsaw Pact troops from Czechoslovakia...