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...most Russians passing through Red Square aren't clamoring to see Lenin moved, even if he commands little of their attention. People tend to walk or jog past the mausoleum; a young couple photographs each other in front of it, beer cans in hand. The Dikii family, visiting from Tambov, Russia, stops to talk to the policeman at the tomb. "So is he going to be buried?," the father, Vladimir, asks. With a laugh, the policeman explains that a hydraulic lift lowers the corpse into the ground every night to keep it cool. The family is impressed. They...
...hearts, he is an anarchist. Russia's rulers have lived in constant dread of the kind of spontaneous, popular uprisings that troubled the czarist era and set off the Bolshevik Revolution. After the communists came to power, others strove to topple them as the sailors of Kronstadt and the Tambov peasants rebelled against the new regime. It has been this way throughout Russian history: early chronicles describe how ancestors of the Russians appealed to neighboring Vikings to come in and rule over them because "our whole land is great and rich, but there is no order...
...versions of the truth could still be found. Pushing my way past a mob of women lined up on the Tambov pedestrian mall to buy yellow tights, I had stepped into a bookshop. On display were paperbacks from a series called Imperialism: Acts, Facts and Records...
...following night, when we started back to Tambov, our hosts accompanied us to the outskirts of Uvarovo, where our two-car convoy pulled over so we could say one last goodbye. All was darkness, except for the expanse of snow caught in the headlights. With lightning speed, plates of foods materialized on the closed trunk of one of the cars. A bottle of vodka appeared. The occasion seemed to demand a humorous toast...
...visit to Tambov, a town in the Russian heartland, uncovers far more change than expected and a cadre of new thinkers ready to carry the torch...