Word: stepanoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...futile gestures though they are, appear on the city's walls. They are the work of Marc Laverne, leader of an anti-Stalinist leftist group, a man so imbued with revolutionary fatalism that he seems like a disembodied symbol of rebellion. More human than Laverne is Ivan Stepanoff, an Old Bolshevik who has miraculously escaped from Stalin's prisons and who feels himself increasingly a historical anachronism. When Stepanoff is arrested, "his first concrete thought [takes] the form of a triple question . . . Vichy? Gestapo? OGPU? ... He [knows] how to recognize the agents of the OGPU...
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