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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short moment, the two great men of letters stood in alliance. But the breach came soon after Chekhov returned from his Siberian tour, horrified by what he had seen. "How," he asked, "did Tolstoy's theory of nonresistance to evil stand up . . .? Did the convicts' nonresistance to flogging or forced labor or blackmail or prostitution transform them or those who were responsible for them into better men? . . . On the contrary, it turned them into bigger brutes." Soon Chekhov was warring with every Tolstoyan tenet, particularly the idea that "Christian love was incompatible with sexual love." And just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Doctor & the Sage | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...redistribution of Russian interpreters. Delays of delivery from Russia might indicate that Moscow is parceling out its supplies slowly to make sure that China does not grow too self-sufficient too fast. A likelier explanation is that Russia has some priority problems of its own, and that the Trans-Siberian Railroad is overburdened because of the Korean war and the U.N. blockade of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Adventuristic Progress | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

Actually, the only substantial disadvantage to Claverly has been its Siberian stigma. The rooms are as good, and the walk to classes actually shorter than from the Houses. But because Claverly in recent years has been filled with cast-offs from the House Selection process, the idea across that the "outhousers" were to be scorned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Nice Guys Finishing Last | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...handsome examples (opposite) are the gold and lapis lazuli egg, with a miniature portrait of Czarevitch Alexis, given by Nicholas II to his Czarina in 1912; the fabulous rock crystal egg (at top), which contains a revolving gallery of twelve gold-framed miniatures capped with a perfect, 27-karat Siberian emerald; and the engraved gold egg which opens to eight painted panels showing favorite imperial charities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: EGGS A LA RUSSE | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...early teens, Mikhail Soloviev served as mascot to Budenny's Red cavalry. Later he was sent to school to be molded into one of Stalin's new Soviet leaders. He became a writer for Izvestia, the government paper, first as Siberian correspondent and then as Kremlin reporter. Soloviev got to know most of the big shots, including Big Brother himself, but when the purges came, he was fired and packed off to an outlying province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dreams & Dust (Cont'd) | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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