Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Refuse to accept "any substitution of East Germany for the Soviet Union in its responsibilities toward Berlin" if the Russians carry out their threat to turn over their occupation rights in Berlin to the East German puppet government on May 27. This allied stand does not rule out a possibility of dealing with East Germany as an "agent" of the Soviet Union if the Russians formally admit a continuing responsibility for assuring allied access to Berlin, as promised...
Meanwhile, the U.S., Britain, France and West Germany finished drafting their closely similar replies to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's note of Jan. 10, suggesting a 28-nation conference to prepare a peace treaty with West and East Germany. Indirectly spurning Khrushchev's gambit, the allies suggested a Big Four foreign ministers' conference on Berlin and Germany. Suggested place: Vienna, to avoid the fog of failure that hangs over Geneva, site of many futile East-West conferences since the end of World War II. The notes named no date; France's Charles de Gaulle had insisted...
BETWEEN now and 1970, predicted Nikita Khrushchev recently, the Soviet Union will catch and then pass the U.S. as the world's foremost economic power. Russian output will race ahead, he said, at the rate of 8.6% annually; the U.S. is poking along at less than 2%. Khrushchev's brassy boast is open to doubt: the U.S. puts out accurate figures, but no one can vouch for the Russian "percentages." The real question is whether the U.S. is growing fast enough, not just to stay ahead of Russia, but for its own economic wellbeing...
This lament in Varvara Karbouvskaya's Bondage indicates how tired Soviet writers must be of the girl-meets-boy, girl-loves-tractor school of fiction. The 18 stories collected in this book by Anthologist Kapp cover the years from 1934 to 1956, and many of them, particularly those written after Stalin's death, reflect an impatience with Communist society that is apt to surprise U.S. readers. In Yury Nagibin's The Night Guest, a feckless sponger is held in contempt by two zealous Soviet citizens, but not before one of them reflects sadly...
...their best, the stories are filled with the continuing Russian love of the vast land: there are hard gallops through Caucasian meadows, hunters' frosty dawns, quiet hours in the white nights and birch woods of the north. Without the skill of such masters as Turgenev and Chekhov, the Soviet writers are still modestly working in the same vein of common humanity and still echo the old wonder of life, as when an aged wanderer in Loaf Sugar sighs: "It's a pity to die, to go away from people's kindness. Ooh, what a pity...