Word: soloviev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN THE GODS ARE SILENT (506 pp.) -Mikhail Soloviev-McKay...
...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...
...story is routine, his experience like that of many other Russian bureaucrats. What is different is that Soloviev silently rebelled and decided to reject the philosophy of Communism entirely. During die war, he served as a guerrilla and was captured by the Nazis...
After the war, he made his way to the U.S. Now, from the depths of his knowledge and bitterness, Soloviev has written a mammoth novel about life under Stalin...
Always Tell the NKVD. For some of its course, When the Gods Are Silent follows Soloviev's own career. The book opens with a glimpse of a village in the heart of the steppes, where the peasants have suffered harshly from the fighting of 1914-17. The lusty Surov boys bring home their weapons, declare a local soviet, cheerfully prod the village policeman to strip in public as a symbolic means of abdicating his authority; and to ten-year-old Mark Surov, gazing spellbound at the revolutionary bravado of his brothers, it all seems like a new world. From...