Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RUSSIAN ASSIGNMENT (568 pp.)-Leslie C. Stevens-Atlantic-Little, Brown ($5.75).
In a bar on Pushkin Square, Rear Admiral Leslie C. Stevens, U.S. naval attache in Moscow, sat over a mug of strong, sweet Russian beer. Before very long he was joined by "a little black-browed man with no collar and a very dirty shirt." His companion turned out to...
This was only one of the dozens of times that Admiral Stevens, who spent two years (1947-49) in the Moscow embassy, found people in Russia friendly, kind and well-disposed toward the U.S. Stevens tells about his experiences in Russian Assignment, one of the most interesting and readable reports...
...asked directions of a Russian woman. An MVD officer came up and said: "It's forbidden to talk with a foreigner." The woman turned on the MVD man and shouted, "You fool! Don't try to tell me what to do!" She then offered to show the Stevenses the way, invited them to visit her home...
But if ordinary people were friendly and kind, the government and its representatives were as consistently chilly and hostile. Wherever he went, Stevens was followed, either blatantly by blue-capped MVD men in small, black Pobeda automobiles or by the ubiquitous "slim, competent, peaches-and-cream young lady from Intourist...