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...where it hurts most," says the University of South Carolina's Gordon Smith, who has written extensively on Soviet youth and criminal justice. At the root of the problem are such social ills as alcohol abuse, broken families, crowded living conditions-and boredom. "Drunkenness," says Police Lieut. General Pyotr Oleinik, "is the mother of hooliganism...
...their traditional debuts on the stage where they hope one day to reign as soloists. Bolshoi training-indeed, Soviet ballet training in general -imbues the students, from their first moments at the barre, with a deep sense of style and history. Says the Bolshoi Ballet's administrative director, Pyotr Khomutov: "When our classical heritage is made a part of the educational program, the students, afterward, can do anything. In the West, you seem to be anti-this and anti-that, as if such an approach were modern and novel. But anything new must be bolstered by a true knowledge...
...like Nikita Khrushchev, to virtual house arrest and the ignominy of being an unperson. Since Khrushchev's overthrow in 1964, only two higher-echelon Soviet leaders have retired because of age: Anastas Mikoyan and Nikolai Shvernik. Numerous others-including the dynamic opportunist Alexander Shelepin, the Ukrainian strongman Pyotr Shelest and the moderate reformer Gennady Voronov-have been expelled from the Politburo and denounced for political sins. If there were more precedent for honorable retirement, Leonid Brezhnev might have decided, on one of his bad days, to step down long before...
Former Red Army Major General Pyotr Grigorenko got the treatment twice...
Vins received a degree in electrical engineering from the Kiev Polytechnical Institute in 1952 and was ordained a minister in 1962. Struggle, and even martyrdom, in the service of religious conviction runs in his family. His father Pyotr was a U.S.-trained preacher who went back to the Soviet Union in 1922 as a missionary. He was arrested three times for his religious activities and died in 1943 somewhere in Stalin's vast Gulag system. Georgi pursued a career in industrial research in Kiev until he dedicated himself full time to religious work...