Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922 to Russian parents (his father had spent 15 years in the U.S. before moving to Palestine during World War I to become a soldier in the Jewish Legion). At the age of 19, Yitzhak joined the elite, secret branch of the Jewish underground, the Palmach. Soon after, he met a high school girl named Leah Schlossberg, whom he married...
Risking Arrest. As if to echo Solzhenitsyn's appeal for a resumption of dialogue among Russian dissidents, an unauthorized press conference was called in Moscow to announce the book. Igor Shafarevich, a world-famous algebraist, told Western newsmen that the aim of the essays was to bring about fundamental changes in the U.S.S.R. Risking arrest, three other dissidents who contributed to the book were willing to be identified: Scientist Mikhail Agursky, Art Historian Yevgeni Barabanov and Historian Vadim Borisov...
...very title, From Under the Ruins, suggests that the Russian people, long buried under the weight of Marxist ideology, must break loose to confront the future by drawing upon Russia's pre-revolutionary past. Specifically, the book reaches back to a famous collection of articles called Vekhi (Landmarks) published a few years after Russia's abortive 1905 revolution. Among the contributors to Vekhi were Christian Philosopher Nikolai Berdyayev and Liberal Politician Pyotr Struve. Vekhi promoted a return to Russia's traditional spiritual values rather than an uncritical acceptance of Western materialism. "The inner life of the individual...
...DEBASEMENT OF THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA...
...technical intelligentsia had been reduced to total submission. It was also well-schooled in treachery. It learned to vote obediently for whatever penalties were demanded. When one brother was annihilated, another brother would dutifully step into his shoes. By this time, there was no command so amoral that the Russian intelligentsia would not have obsequiously rushed to execute...