Word: razhev
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1989-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...also learned to my amazement that Vladimir Razhev had been elected director of the chemical factory, after being fired from the same post several years ago because of conflicts with the local leadership. "The city party committee was against his candidacy," said First Secretary Vladimir Karpov. "We had another director in mind, but the workers elected Razhev...
...funny to watch Razhev and Karpov needle each other over dinner. I knew for certain that several years ago it would have been inconceivable that Razhev would be named director of the factory against the will of the city party committee. It would have been even more difficult to imagine that a collective of workers would have the right to elect...
Like the boy in the Russian folktale whose magical hat allows him to see and hear everything unobserved, I sat at the dinner table and listened to Razhev and Karpov. The exchanges about ecology and the financial obligations of local factories to the surrounding community crackled. But it was not the flow of argument that impressed me so much as the fact that an American was allowed to listen. Had Soviet officials always spoken so bluntly among themselves? Or was this a reflection of plyuralizm, a borrowed word slipping awkwardly off Russian tongues...
| 1 |