Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Will, is like reading backfiles of French newspapers from Oct. 6, 1908. The New York Times's hardworking Critic Ralph Thompson once remarked in a fit of exasperation that Remains' "theory of fiction is almost intolerable." But The New Yorker's Clifton Fadiman has stuck to his opinion that Men of Good Will "is the Comedie Humaine of and for the 20th Century." Tired critics and trustful critics have divided over the question whether the finished job (in 27 volumes, as planned) will rank as one of the great novels of modern times or merely...
...efforts before the revolution were to build up a professional revolutionary machine experienced in organizing workers and able to dodge the police. Almost all the big revolutionists of necessity lived abroad; Stalin and Molotov were the only two who were able to brag in later years that they stuck it out for the most part inside. At World War I's start Stalin was in a prison camp just below the Arctic Circle. He got out when a general amnesty was proclaimed at the Tsar's abdication...
...Finns told tales of Russians freezing to death, stuck in the snow. They did not chase the fleeing Russians far because they wanted to save their men, and the weather was fighting for them. By week's end the Russians were in full flight toward Kola, and the Finns announced triumphantly that there was not a live Russian in the Arctic region south of Salmij...