Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England by the late Czar Nicholas of Russia. In July 1917 Alexander Kerensky, the revolutionary Prime Minister, declared that "all rumors regarding the fortune of the Czar abroad is a baseless legend." Actually, what started this legend was the enormous sums in gold rubles deposited in England by the Russian Imperial government during the first World War to cover purchases for ammunition. This sum was frozen by the British government after the Communists seized power. These funds, of course, had nothing to do with the private fortune of the imperial family...
...specialist on affairs of the Soviet Union, Carr is currently at the Russian Research Center writing the fifth volume of his history of Russia...
Amid all the onrush of speculation over whether Gromyko's appointment means a revival of the old hard-face Molotov policies, the basic fact remains that Russian Foreign Secretaries are not of the top circle of Kremlin leadership these days: they make the faces, but they do not make the policies. As if to underline this fact, and incidentally to acknowledge the abruptness of the change of ministers, the Kremlin announced that the "definitive" foreign-policy speech made four days earlier by Shepilov was still definitive, even though he had already lost...
...hunters sit silently with their rifles awaiting the antlered deer at a salt lick; they go spear fishing in the forest rivers, wake to brilliant mornings when billions of dewdrops shimmer like miniature suns, and huddle in the winter snugness of their clay-walled home with its roaring Russian stove. The climax of the year is the tiger hunt, when dogs and men go out to track down young cats and wrestle them into submission. And through this rhythmic cycle of the seasons, love springs up between Hryhory and Natalka...
...fellow prisoners and a young Dutch seaman, she starts out on the long journey to her home in The Netherlands. The book becomes a picaresque adventure as the quartet travel by foot, horse cart, boat and truck. Along the way are Germans, sullen or penitent or self-pitying; Russians, busy "liberating'' wristwatches, bicycles and women; and a boisterous medley of all the races of Europe who had been penned into camps by the Nazis and are now moving deliriously toward their homes. The biggest problem of course is posed by the Russians: "We never learned to predict what...