Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's comprehensive coverage and this week's Khrushchev cover story, tapping all the available intelligence sources in Warsaw, Prague, Belgrade. Bonn, Munich, London and Washington. To supplement the news and analysis from correspondents in the field. TIME called on the resources of its library of past Russian events, and its "Russian Desk," presided over by two ex-Russian scholars. From all of these sources, Associate Editor Godfrey Blunden assembled and wrote TIME'S stories of Nikita Khrushchev's historic coup...
...novels about Russia (A Room on the Route, The Time of the Assassins), as well as a recently published satire on the second Geneva Conference (The Looking-Glass Conference). For the product of his carefully acquired knowledge, plus that of a host of other students of the Russian scene, see FOREIGN NEWS, The Quick & the Dead...
Author Troyat tells his grim, credible story in terms of the diverse fortunes of one family. The head of the Arapov clan is old Constantine Kirillovitch, a doctor who illustrates in his old Russian virtues the fatal inability of the Russian ruling class to come to early terms with the nation's liberal professional classes. One of his daughters is an actress whose sole ambition is to play before the Czar; instead she sees his back in a railway station as he is about to make his exit from history. Another Arapov is a captain in a crack cavalry...
Throughout the novel the whole vast, vague Russian steppe slips from its habitual disorder into the anarchy of revolution. Trains do not arrive. Officers are suddenly bereft of rank, people of homes. Families lose touch. If the book sometimes reads like a primer, there is probably a good reason: the alphabet of this revolution is still being learned. Troyat has none of the exile's bitterness, but might well claim title to the words of one of his own refugee characters:"Where I am, there is Russia...
Deutscher passionately believes that Russian workers and intellectuals "are throbbing and stirring," that Russia is "relearning freedom." Often scholarly and hardheaded, Crystal-Gazer Deutscher (a Communist until he was thrown out of the party in 1932 for anti-Stalinism) is also a sentimentalist who believes that Stalinism is wrong but not Marxism. With the snobbery typical of many ex-Communists, Deutscher looks down on other ex-Communists and muses about vintage years-1921 was a good year, and Communism was still fine and heady stuff; 1932 was a bad year, because the party had begun to turn sour...