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...Bryansk, for example, a city of 500,000 about 210 miles southwest of Moscow, many defense plants have closed or cut back. Unemployment and inflation are rising to the point where the monthly minimum wage will buy only 10 lbs. of meat. Old communists like Pyotr Shirshov, a former army general who now heads the city soviet, predictably accuse Yeltsin of practicing "a pure form of dictatorship." More ominous for the President, disaffection has spread to young people, who might be expected to back reform. "I'm not really interested in politics," says Sergei Mishin, 20, an industrial technician...
...holding balls for descendants of the old nobility reflects an intense nostalgia for a Russia long gone, a monarchist age that appears as full of sunlight and promise for the Slavophiles as it was dark and despairing for the communists. The traditionalists take inspiration from prerevolutionary conservatives like Pyotr Stolypin, the assassinated Prime Minister of Czar Nicholas II, who dismissed his radical opponents with the curt dictum, "They need a great upheaval; we need a great Russia...
...archival material, particularly at Stanford's Hoover Institution, and has now expanded the text by some 300 pages. Much of the additional material concerns the evil (in Solzhenitsyn's view) activities of Lenin during Russia's hasty entrance into World War I, and the heroic (ditto) career of Pyotr Stolypin, the Prime Minister under Czar Nicholas II who was assassinated in 1911 by an anarchist named Dmitri Bogrov. Translated by Harry T. Willetts, this version is essentially a brand-new work...
...person in this novel whom you obviously admire greatly is ((Russian Prime Minister Pyotr)) Stolypin. How would you summarize his role in Russian history...
...PYOTR BELOV, Tverskoi Boulevard 11, Moscow. Twenty-two allegorical works about Stalin's reign of terror, by the theater artist Pyotr Belov (1929-88). Among the most damning: one portraying antlike columns of Gulag prisoners emerging from a pack of Belomor cigarettes -- a reference to the forced labor that built the Belomor canal -- and another showing Stalin up to his boots in a sea of dandelions imprinted with the faces of his victims...