Word: russias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expecting him at all. Until the night before he was due, the only visible preparations for his visit were special parking regulations along main boulevards. This studied calm, however, turned out to be yet another indication of President Ceausescu's masterful diplomatic balancing act: an assurance to Russia, which had expressed displeasure over a U.S. presidential visit in its front yard, that he was not going all-out to welcome Nixon...
Repressive Climate. Kuznetsov is the most important literary figure to defect from the Soviet Union since the end of World War II and the best known personality within Russia to flee since Svetlana Stalin left in 1967 and wrote her recollections in Twenty Letters to a Friend. Along with Yuri Kazakov and Vasily Aksenov, he ranks as one of the most widely read authors in Russia. Noted for his sparse, evocative style, he has written numerous short stories and four novels. His 1966 documentary novel, Babi Yar, which recounts the Nazi massacre of thousands of Russian Jews outside the author...
Secretly, Kuznetsov was desperately unhappy. For him the final blow was the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, which, he says, turned Russia's intelligentsia against the Soviet regime. He began planning his escape. His pretext for traveling abroad was perfect. How could Moscow deny a Soviet writer the opportunity to research a book on Lenin's stay in Britain? Kuznetsov transferred his Russian royalty payments to his wife and nine-year-old son. After photographing the pages of his unpublished works, he sewed the 35-mm. film into the lining of his coat. Into his suitcase Kuznetsov crammed copies...
STRATFORD, CONN.--If took an awfully long time for Russia to make major contributions to world literate and music. But when its time came, in the 1820's and 1830's, Russia exploded into global significance with a dazzling roster of great figures in both fields...
Although Chekhov is Russia's supreme playwright, he did not devote the bulk of his efforts to the theatre. He was a physician, but spent most of his time turning out a stream of short stories--a field that paid well and paid quickly, important factors for Chekhov, who had a large family to support. In a life restricted to forty four years by the ravages of tuberculosis, he penned short stories totalling, I believe, close to a thousand. At any rate, he is universally considered Russia's greatest short-story teller, and by many the foremost practitioner...