Word: turkestan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hauled him back across the frontier. For a time he was shut up in Lubianka prison and put through various physical and psychological "persuasions" to sign a phony confession of spying for the British and Americans. He refused, and then began four years of prison camps in Siberia and Turkestan. His brief descriptions of Lubianka, the slave camps and the tortures that were devised to break him are set down in the passionless reporting of a recorder who has known terror so well that it has become conventional...
...World War I. Just after he finished his education, he went to serve in the Austrian army. (He admits he was then under the spell of the nationalism he has grown to dislike.) Captured by the Russians in the spring of 1915, he spent almost five years in Turkestan and Siberia...
Most of Afghanistan is now a sterile desert, but once it must have been green and productive. From coastal Baluchistan to the Russian border, the whole country is dotted with the ruins of ancient cultures, which spread deep into Soviet Turkestan. Back in the U.S. last week, after a ten-month trip through that ancient land, Anthropologist Walter A. Fairservis Jr. of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History told about his second expedition in search of dead civilizations under the eaves of the Himalayas...
...theory is that the Afghanistan region was well-watered and fertile at the dawn of history. Civilization spread from the West along the Arabian Sea, through Afghanistan and Baluchistan into northern India. He suspects that it also spread northward into Central Asia, and may have reached China through Soviet Turkestan...
...schoolteacher, 49-year-old Owen Lattimore grew up in China. He roamed the high, bitter steppes and the burning deserts of Asia's hinterlands, became the familiar of Uzbek traders and Mongolian camel herders, and his honeymoon was a trek by camel, sled and shaggy pony through Chinese Turkestan...