Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reverse the effect of all Soviet policies designed to bring Russia into competition with the modern world, by destroying the individual initiative of every Soviet citizen, from the simple worker to the great scientist who is crucial to the development of Soviet technology. And, perhaps most important, the powerful secret-police organization needed to impose terror might well devour the political leaders who had revived...
Innokenti Volodin, an effete young Russian diplomat, phones a warning to a friend, is tracked down by the secret police with the aid of a "voiceprinter" devised at the prison's laboratories...
...them, that The First Circle is most harrowing. Solzhenitsyn writes of one of these camp complexes as "a kingdom bigger than France." Each camp bore a bucolic code name such as Lake Camp, Steppe Camp, Sandy Camp. "You'd think there must be some great, unknown poet in the secret police, a new Pushkin," writes Solzhenitsyn. "He's not quite up to a full-length poem, but he gives these wonderful poetic names to concentration camps." These passages obviously parallel Solzhenitsyn's own experiences; after his years in Mavrino, he was sent to such a camp in Kazakhstan, part...
...violation of the Soviet constitution. Their tactic is essentially an appeal to law, and that in itself represents an advance over the days of Stalin, when such a protest would have been meaningless. That it is not entirely meaningless now is demonstrated by the fact that the secret police are also concerned with fabricating cases that they can prop up in a Soviet court. The KGB effort to peddle Solzhenitsyn's manuscripts abroad is a search for a pretext to arrest him. Stalin's police never required pretexts for anything they...
Jack Anderson wrote in his syndicated column yesterday that a secret intelligence report shows that students at Harvard are planning disruptions for the first two weeks in November similar to those that took place last spring at Columbia...