Word: sergeyevich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia each month comes a trickle of contraband manuscripts. Usually handwritten in loose-leaf notebooks by pseudonymous authors, the books are smuggled to Western publishers via an intellectual underground. Last week two of these recently published volumes. Abram Tertz's On Socialist Realism and Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yesenin-Volpin's The Leaf of Spring, gave Western readers a look at Russian intellectuals' bitter disenchantment...
Yesenin-Volpin's pessimism and rebelliousness come naturally. His father, the great Russian village poet, Sergei Yesenin, was an ardent early Bolshevik, whose increasing disillusion with Communism was accompanied by a marriage to Dancer Isadora Duncan and a slide into alcoholic and narcotic torpor. His bastard son, Aleksandr Sergeyevich, was the result of a liaison with a Russian writer-translator, Nadezhda Volpin. Shortly after his son's birth, Yesenin slashed his wrists in a Leningrad hotel, wrote his last poem in his blood, then hanged himself...
Before taking up its positions on the rope, the Socialist tam huddles for a brief four-hour address by Nikita Sergeyevich...
...those eager to be convinced that Nikita Khrushchev is an evil, evil man Conquest Without War is recommended reading. The book is "an analytical anthology of the speeches, interviews and remarks of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev," with a running commentary by two men who have read all of Mr. K's speeches and lived to tell about it. N. H. Mager and Jacques Katel are the two heroes, and they lay the Whole Truth on the line: Stalin's real name was Dzhugashvili; Russian farmers are short of fertilizer; the per capita income of the U.S.S.R. is only $310 a year...
...Mein Kampf," they tell us, "is contained in the millions of words uttered in almost every latitude and longitude (sic) by the leader of the world communist movement. From this flow of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and epithets (not to mention adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions) there emerges a Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev who considers himself the most powerful man on earth. ... He makes no secret of his desire to rule the world. ... Conquest is the central theme of all he says, the objective of everything he does." Thus, Mager and Katel. For lack of subtlety in thought and expression they...