Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they only other game, Czechoslovakia came from behind to defeat Finland and tie the Soviet Union for first place in the six-team tourney...
...Cold War struggle. During a period when they should have been formulating alternatives to the Cold War and the moratorium on domestic political controversy which accompanied it, the liberal intellectuals were allowing themselves to be herded into the cultural arsenal of the state. Within those rigid confines, they deplored Soviet repressions and "unofficial" vigilanteism at home, while failing utterly to subject official state policy to critical scrutiny. The limits of the "free" debate which engaged the American intellectual community in the fifties was so narrow as to be meaningless, and from this debate, these intellectuals produced nothing of value...
...addition to this novel, another new work, The Easter Procession, has just reached the West. It is a contemporary vignette reported as only a great novelist can. In it, Solzhenitsyn sketches brilliantly the clash of generations and cultures in Soviet Russia...
...These good tidings were somewhat marred by word from Milan that Publisher Gian-giacomo Feltrinelli had forbidden the publication of Doctor Zhivago in Czechoslovakia on the grounds that he did not want the book, which has always been proscribed in Russia, to be used "as an instrument of anti-Soviet policy." Feltrinelli, who holds the copyright on the novel, has made a fortune selling Doctor Zhivago's book and movie rights around the world...
...appeals involved two men who were convicted of conspiring to transmit U.S. defense secrets to the Soviet Union-an American engineer named John Butenko and Igor Ivanov, a chauffeur for a Soviet trade agency in the U.S. In their cases, and another that involved a pair of extortionists, the Government's position was that the trial judge should decide what portions of the eavesdropping transcripts were "arguably relevant" to the trial. He would then turn over those portions-and only those-to the defense...