Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hryhory makes his escape at the last Siberian station before the prisoners are transferred to boats for the voyage to Kolyma. He plunges south into the taiga, the vast, swampy forest that stretches along the Manchurian border. After six days of flight, during which he has only a handful of nuts for food, Hryhory is still powerful enough to stab a bear to death and rescue Natalka Sirko, the daughter of a family of hunters. The remainder of the book is largely a hymn to the free life of the Sirko family, whose elemental existence is wondrously untouched...
...much farm machinery fell short of set goals. More important, from the viewpoint of the elite, dwelling construction fell short of aims by 30 million sq. ft. The same economic report told of a 20% increase in the 1956 grain harvest, mainly due to heavy plantings in the Siberian "virgin lands"-a pat on the back for those who had responded to Khrushchev's call two years ago. But the biggest setback since the last Supreme Soviet meeting was in foreign affairs. The coexistence policy, a successful operation a year ago, had been literally shot to pieces...
...Century-Fox) is a name, derived from the Greek, that means "of the resurrection." It is also the curiously appropriate name of the youngest daughter of Nicholas II, last of the Czars of Russia. Many romantics fondly believe that Anastasia survived the slaughter of the royal family in a Siberian cellar in 1918, escaped with two members of the firing squad, and is living today, an indigent widow, near Stuttgart, West Germany. On Broadway, Anastasia was a financially successful attempt, made in 1954, to resurrect this legend in the dubious form of a Cinderella story, with undertones...
Promises. It was the fearful news of the deportations-the classic Siberian solution for troublesome minorities-that sparked the great workers' demonstration. In orderly ranks, but grim and determined, 10,000 men from Ujpest, Kispest and Csepel surrounded Parliament house. Here, protected by seven huge Soviet tanks, a dozen armored cars and Red army infantry, was the only piece of ground which could correctly be said to be controlled by the government. Workers' leaders went up to the Presidential Council chamber on the second floor to see Janus-faced Janos Kadar. They found a weary, bug-eyed...
...some cases the visitors can even phone out stories from their hotel rooms with no censorship at all. Gradually, the clamps on the residents are also slackening. They are no longer restricted to Moscow, easily get permission to travel outside, though they are still barred from strategic areas and Siberian slave camps. Censors no longer kill all references to "corrective labor camps," government shortcomings and bureaucratic bunglings in the U.S.S.R., agricultural shortages and criticism of anything from the Stalin...