Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This, Madam," said the imperial ghost, "is no strange place to me. It is our former estate of Livadia. Allow me to cite the Intourist's Pocket Guide to the Soviet Union: 'This estate occupies 350 hectares of land, and includes a large park, two palaces and many vineyards. The newer palace [you are standing on its roof], built in 1911 by Krasnov in the style of the Italian Renaissance, is of white Inkerman stone, and contains nearly a hundred rooms. It has now been changed into a sanatorium for sick peasants, although certain of the rooms have...
...SOVIET LITERATURE TODAY (187 pp.)-George Reavey-Yale...
...timetable was off but the objective remains. Today, says Moscow's Literary Gazette, Soviet literature "penetrating abroad . . . must convince the reader of the advantages of the Soviet social order...
Rations for the Regulated. George Reavey, 40, was born in Russia of British parents, educated in England and graduated from Cambridge University. He lived in Russia from 1912 to 1918, returned there in 1942 to spend the next three years as deputy press attache at the British Embassy. Soviet Literature Today is irritatingly naive and uncritical. But it is important for what it reveals about the grisly role of the writer in a totalitarian state...
Konstantin Simonov, Russia's most successful literary handyman (three theaters were running his plays simultaneously in Moscow last month), recently wrote a novel that seemed to have all the correct ingredients. The Soviet hero returned home after two years in the U.S. to find Russia overwhelmingly more attractive. But the pontiffs weren't satisfied. Simonov's Smoke of the Fatherland, just out, was written off as "immature and unsound." The surprising reason: the Propaganda Committee of the Communist Patty said he hadn't proved his thesis...