Word: soloviev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were other stars both evenings: Vladimir Levashev, who danced the role of the Evil Sorcerer with briny conviction and made his final, crippled death dance a wonderful virtuoso exercise; Nicolai Fadeyechev, who was superb as the Prince, particularly in his leaps in the Act III Black Swan variations; Georgi Soloviev as an acrobatic Jester (a happy Russian addition to the ballet). Occasionally ragged the first evening, the Bolshoi's Swan Lake was danced with fine precision at the second performance. The repetitive, copybook attitudes of the ballet corps occasionally clotted the action and wearied...
...Nine Lives in the Red Army are brutal autobiographies of ex-Communists which make few of the usual apologies for their authors' past. N. M. Borodin, who went over to the British when he finally found himself in a tight spot in 1948, was a Cossack scientist. Mikhail Soloviev, who in World War II became a leader of the resistance fighting both the Germans and the Communists in White Russia, started out as a nimble-footed military journalist skilled in all the slippery tricks of Mos cow intrigue. Their stories, nightmarish documentaries of Communist Russia's bureaucratic life...
From Bukharin to Bulganin. Mikhail Soloviev, author of My Nine Lives in the Red Army and a novel called When the Gods Are Silent (TIME, Jan. 5, 1953), was once military correspondent for Izvestia, where he learned to find his way safely among the Red army's biggest monsters. He too can tell shocking stories about the secret police-about the porcine Chekist who ravaged a whole Cossack village but lost his own life when attacked by five cavalrymen after killing its last naked, crazed peasant; about the Communist who had the girl who jilted him arrested...
After his old editor Bukharin was finally liquidated in the great 1938 Moscow show trial, Soloviev was sentenced to "minus six," i.e., he was forbidden to live in Russia's six largest cities. He appealed to Lenin's widow and, through her, to Malenkov, with no result. Eventually, Soloviev was drafted and sent to Finland. In World War II he was assigned to a special task force that pulled Russian forces out from behind the advancing German armies and reassembled them for combat. Soloviev himself was pulled out of the war when the Nazis captured him during their...
Tossing in short and sometimes amusing sketches of Soviet leaders, from mustachioed old Marshal Budenny to Bulganin and Khrushchev, Soloviev has written the livelier book. But Borodin's roughly phrased and unrepentant witness is the more telling testimonial to the horrors of Soviet life, not the least of which is that it destroys the victim's sense of horror...