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...genre to literature: short historical fiction. In dispensing with the burdens of longer historical novels, Tatlin! presents an exciting array of portraits including Franz Kafka, Herakleitos, an ancient Greek philosopher, Vladimir Tatlin, a Russian artist, Henry Breuil, a French anthropologist, and minor sketches of Picasso, Chagall, Lenin and Stalin...
After his landslide victory in November 1944 over Dewey (who was "a son of a bitch," he said to Aide William Hassett), Roosevelt was exhausted. Still, in January he journeyed by sea and air to the Crimea for the Yalta Conference, the most momentous of the wartime meetings with Stalin and Churchill...
...times, Roosevelt's mind wandered, his voice was low, his questions trivial. Later Stalin said: "If I had known how tired that man is, I would have agreed to meet along the Mediterranean...
Even so, Bishop believes that Roosevelt got what he wanted at Yalta: agreement, however vague, on how to deal with postwar Germany; Stalin's promise to enter the war against Japan; and an accord on the formation of the United Nations. When Stalin soon broke his promises to let Eastern Europeans choose their own destinies, Roosevelt concluded realistically that there was very little he could have done about it. Discussing Yalta, he told one intimate: "I didn't say it was good. I said it was the best I could...
...allegation that The Quiet Don is mostly the work of an anti-Communist brings into the open a long-smoldering rumor that Sholokhov is a plagiarist. Reports that Sholokhov had plagiarized the novel were so widespread in 1929 that Pravda threatened to prosecute the "malicious slanderers." When Stalin later declared Sholokhov to be "the great writer of our tune," any discussion of the novel's true authorship became extremely dangerous. But the controversy would not die. In 1967 Russian Poet Andrei Voznesensky publicly recited an unpublished poem in Moscow that clearly alluded to Sholokhov...