Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...putting down the Moscow-First crowd, Gomulka gave no encouragement to those Poles who urge more and more freedom, more and more separation from Russia. Denouncing the "intellectual nonsense of political romanticists," he faithfully echoed all the claptrap of Russian foreign policy. But this orthodoxy gave him Moscow's support for a highly unorthodox domestic regime. Delegates from other Communist nations found themselves in the freest society behind the Iron Curtain, where the press still takes liberties (though less and less); where talk is comparatively free; where the secret police are all but gone, and the Roman Catholic Church...
Western researchers are willing to credit Russian colleagues with notable contributions to the study of fats and heart disease. The reverse is not true, the Canadian Medical Association Journal complained last week. Political ideology apparently is more potent than scientific solidarity. It quoted a Soviet internist, Professor I. Gurevitch, as writing in Klinicheskaya Meditsina that the campaign to reduce fats in the diet is a capitalist plot-"advantageous to the ruling classes, who are at present engaged in lowering the living standard of the masses, in lowering their wages and in raising the price of food and particularly...
Moonfaced, Russian-born Al Greenfield went into the real estate business with $500 he borrowed, parlayed it into $15 million, which he lost in the Depression...
...perhaps no writer has ever used the device more successfully than Andrey Biely in St. Petersburg, originally published in Russia in 1913 and now translated into English for the first time. Biely (real name: Boris Bugaiev) died in 1934, a political pariah; like Boris Pasternak, he was a Russian who came to see that revolution often destroys more than it creates...
...Petersburg can be taken as a sharp, jittery account of an explosive moment in Russian history, as a symbol-laden probe of the Russian temperament, or as a condemnation of nihilism. As a story about tormented oddballs, it needs none of these assists, but they enrich a difficult book that rises above its difficulties...