Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actually changed in a 12,000-mile trip that he made through the Soviet North and eastern Siberia. "It was," says Salisbury, "probably the most extensive survey of this . . . region by an American since the 1880s." That part of Russia, said he, is "an empire-within-an-empire, the slave state of prison labor and forced-residence workers" that extends thousands of miles and is ruled by the MVD. "All life in those regions is incredibly harsh and grim." Salisbury saw hundreds of labor gangs of men and women going blankly about their jobs under the eyes of armed...
...that Russian Moslems such as the Crimean Tartars and the North Caucasians (who were deported and exterminated) had been punished by God, not by the Communist government. Replied Raschid: "I am a Tartar. I saw with my own eyes how the mosques were destroyed and the clergy sent to slave-labor camps in Siberia." He produced photographs to prove...
...with the vital difference that he spent a lifetime analyzing and fighting it. Too gentle to be as dogmatic as the proud Tolstoy, too rebellious to accept the resignation of Dostoevsky, Turgenev made his place in literature as a genius who dwelt in a house divided against itself, half slave and half free...
Mother Dictator. Turgenev was the slave of a mother who had herself suffered all the ignominies of enslavement. As a young girl, she was abused with "drunken violence" by her stepfather until she was 16 years old. She ran away and took refuge in the house of a "severe and miserly" uncle, who, says Biographer Magarshack, threatened not only to throw her out of his house but also to disinherit her. But when he died, she inherited his vast estates, married Turgenev's father-and set out to get her own back for the miseries she had suffered...
...that he was impious and had corrupted the young, Socrates refuses to escape and save his skin, preferring to save his soul. Not nearly as perceptive an account as Plato's, of course, but full of lively local color (garlic-eating jurymen, the seductive street wiles of Athenian slave girls) and a sympathetic look at Socrates' much maligned wife, Xanthippe...