Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LAST WORK by the late English historian E.H. Carr;The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War represents the culmination of a lifetime of brilliant research on Russia and communism Deutscher. Wife of Trotsky biographer Isaac Deutscher, edits and introduces the book, left as an unfinished manuscript by Carr's death, and adds a "personal memoir" of its author, with whom she worked closely...
...this point, Carter's florid, energetic style begins turning an already complicated narrative into a three-ring extravaganza. As if the local color of Imperial Russia and a weird group of invading performers were not enough, obscure allusions begin clamoring for attention. One of the star acts in Colonel Kearney's circus is "Lamarck's Educated Apes." This Monsieur Lamarck is a wife beater and a drunk; he also bears the name of the French naturalist whose theory of evolution through the transmission of acquired learning was overturned by Darwinism. So the new Lamarck's chimps get smart enough...
...course of the sermon he brought out that the eastern block of countries, Russia et at.. are not doing business with South Africa What he did not say is that Russia is doing business with Black African countries which are communist-oriented, e.g. Ethiopia Some food and medical supplies are being delivered to starving the Russian trucks. The the recipients who see "LADA" the Russia auto masque as to be grateful to Russia. This came out to recent Phil Donahue talk show. In the police of hunger as practiced by Ethiopia a Norwegian ship, loaded with relief supplies...
...mystical representative, possibly even the reincarnation, of her own daughter, who had died in an auto accident in 1946. Mrs. Wright, a disciple of the Russian-born mystic Georgi Gurdjieff, was spellbound by some coincidences between the living and the dead. Her daughter, by an earlier marriage in Russia, had also been named Svetlana; moreover, she had been born in Georgia, the region from which Svetlana Alliluyeva's father hailed. Somehow it followed in Mrs. Wright's mind that Stalin's daughter should marry the first Svetlana's widower, William Wesley Peters, known as Wes, Taliesin West's chief architect...
...Svetlana was manifestly troubled, there was little to indicate that she might be tempted to return to the Soviet Union. Her loathing for the regime was undiminished. In 1984, she published in India a sharply anti-Soviet volume of memoirs titled The Faraway Music. "Svetlana's hatred for Soviet Russia was in her bones," says a Russian emigre who knew her well. "If she heard Russian spoken by someone who had been brought up in the U.S.S.R., she would become enraged." Svetlana said on the BBC, "Only when I came to America and heard all the emigres, then I heard...