Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Black September terrorists murdered 1 1 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. Villainous Palestinians, flinty Israeli secret police and slightly less heroic American and English spooks never seem to lack technical expertise, first-class plane fare or a large supply of plastic explosives and Kalashnikovs (the Russian submachine guns favored by thriller writers...
RICHARD PIPES BELIEVES the Russian people are condemned to repeat their past, whether they remember it or not. Pipes, a former director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, has spent his years in the History Department trying to prove that Soviet institutions are the product of a Russian consciousness composed o nineteenth-century parts. "There are many similarities between Soviet institutions and institutions in the old regime," Pipes said recently. "Under both systems, the country belongs to the state. The state holds it in "outright ownership. There is nothing like it in the world...
...absolute power of the crown, their panicked reaction to the Emancipation in 1861 revealed the large extent of their dependence on the use of the monarch's serfs for survival. Realizing this, the nobles began to accept what was given to them a little more gratefully, living out the Russian "conviction" that the path way to wealth lies not in fighting the authorities but in collaborating with them. And Pipes argues that with trade and manufacture at the disposal of the tsar, the enfeebled Russian middle class was also forced to sell...
Pipes's failure to discuss the rising proletariat is his most serious omission. In the end, his conservative bias leads him to overlook the savior in Russian history he was looking for. And with this error, it is no wonder that his Russia remained the vast, backward, absolutist country it had been for centuries...
While this kind of fascist garbage received the National Book Award in Prague, a dozen works by Czech writers not allowed to be published in their country were acclaimed by critics in the West. Whereas the "official" publications seem a rather desperate effort' third-rate writers to please their Russian-sponsored supervisors, those that are banned are linked with and perpetuate the Czech literary tradition...