Word: terrorizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week an obscure literary journal, Druzhba Narodov (Friendship of Peoples), will publish the first of three monthly installments of Anatoli Rybakov's startling novel, Children of the Arbat, which takes place during Stalin's reign of terror. The publication has been eagerly anticipated by Soviet intellectuals for more than a year, and many are hailing it as the literary event of their generation. People who have already read the novel are heaping praise on it. "This is a great book, a great moment in our literature," declared Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko. "Rybakov was the man to do this...
Rybakov's early life was distressingly similar to many others in the Moscow of the 1930s, years of terror on a mass scale. He was yanked from his automotive-engineering studies in November 1933 during the political purges. After a week's interrogation he was sentenced to three years of exile in Siberia. He was charged under Article 58, a law used to arrest people for "assisting" in counterrevolutionary activity even though they had no idea what they were supposed to have done wrong and there was no evidence to support the charges. The article was a convenient catchall that...
Where does Percy stand with the release of The Thanatos Syndrome, his newest and least engaging piece of fiction? The writing here is piquant, elegant, well-whittled, and striking. And though the stakes are high--eugenics, AIDS, nuclear waste, and existential terror--one can't help thinking midway through this novel: Percy's all dressed up with no place...
This year, McBride, a Winthrop House resident, is a terror inside and outside of the league. Against Northeastern a week ago, she scored six goals and recorded three assists--all in the first half...
Magadan. It is a name that turns Soviet hearts to ice and evokes memories of the long ago midnight knock on the door. The port of entry to the most deadly archipelago of the Gulag system, it became a synonym for the terror Joseph Stalin visited upon the land. At least 2 million prisoners were worked to death in its gold mines and timber forests and on its road projects. Since then, with few exceptions, the city of Magadan and the vast region around it have been closed to foreigners. When the Soviets permitted a small group to visit Magadan...