Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After three years in Siberian prison camps, Writer Andrei Amalrik, 35, was looking forward to going home. In May he wrote his wife Gyusel in Moscow to say that he expected to be released on schedule later that month. He was mistaken. As soon as his term expired, Amalrik was rearrested and has now been sentenced to three more years for "fabrications defaming the Soviet state" -the same charge that produced his previous conviction. In protest, he has gone on a hunger strike. His friends fear for his life, since he is already in poor health from meningitis and years...
Unlike Nobel Prizewinner Alexander Solzhenitsyn, however, Amalrik is virtually unknown in his own country. His two books have been published only in the West-in violation of Soviet law. In the first, Involuntary Journey to Siberia, he gives a spare, vivid account of his exile to a Siberian collective farm for "parasitism" (failure to hold a regular job). Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? is a political treatise that foretells Russia's ultimate disintegration, and predicted in 1969 that the U.S. and China would reach a rapprochement...
Mandelstam was to die in one of Stalin's Siberian prison camps at the beginning of World War II. He was one of Russia's finest modern poets, an artist who built his poems from gritty blocks of life. Anna Akhmatova, a close friend of the Mandelstams, shared this politically hazardous aesthetic. When she died in 1966 at the age of 77, she was regarded as Russia's greatest woman poet. It is a distinction that today might be considered sexist, were this issue not overshadowed by the enormous struggle in the Soviet Union for intellectual...
Glassboro was chosen as the site of their two-day talks for reasons of protocol-it was equidistant from Washington and New York City. *One small but possibly telling portent occurred last week. The trade-union newspaper Trud reported that a much ballyhooed Siberian power generator supposedly put in service five years ago had in fact burned out at the factory and never been installed. Western economic analysts could not recall a case of similar candor...
...Japanese are apprehensive that Moscow will seek to use favorable agreements with the U.S. or West Germany to pressure Tokyo into more favorable terms in the joint exploitation and development of Siberian gas and oil. The Russians are seeking $1 billion in credits from Tokyo for the 2,000mile Irkutsk-to-Nakhodka oil pipeline...