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Grigori Goldshtein, 46, and Pyotr Vins, 21, members of Helsinki watch groups in Georgia and the Ukraine, have been sentenced to one year in concentration camps for "malicious evasion of socially useful labor." Leaders of a similar group in Kiev, Engineer Myroslav Marinovych, 28. and Historian Mykola Matusevych, 30, have been sentenced to seven years in jail plus five years of internal exile for "anti-Soviet agitation...
Helms worked on the U-2 project, which brought us our first aerial photographic views of Soviet military capability and later warned us of the Cuban missile crisis. He was part of the undercover seduction of Soviet Spies Oleg Penkovsky and Pyotr Popov, the former passing along a manual on the field operation of Russian nuclear missiles...
...that Catherine is just beginning to enjoy peace, at the age of 47, the absolute mistress of everything from Kiev to Kamchatka has found a new specimen of what the Russians call a vremenshchik (man of the moment). He is Pyotr Zavadovsky, 37, her private secretary, who has moved into the traditional consort's suite just below the Empress's own chambers (and connected to them by a green-carpeted circular stairway). Where does that leave His Serene Highness General Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, 36, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Count of the Russian Empire, recipient of Prussia's Black...
...seismic collapse of Europe in 1914 brought on the modern age of political assassinations. Russia's Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin had already been killed in 1911 by Dimitri Bogrov, who may have been acting as a revolutionary or a police agent. Then Serbian nationalists assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand-a dissident act that brought on the first World...
...Seven Days of Creation arrives with good intentions stamped all over it. Originally published in Germany in 1971 (and still banned in the Soviet Union), the book is a loose recounting of 20th century Russian history seen through the eyes of three aging brothers. Pyotr and Andrei Lashkov have become provincial Communist Party functionaries, while Vasilii acts as a morose janitor for a Moscow apartment house. All are profoundly disillusioned by the course their lives and land have taken. For them, the glorious future promised by the Revolution is not working, and Pyotr wonders...