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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Electric Power Stations, he had been put on a job as a Dynamo-Dan at a hydroelectric project at Ust Kameno-gorsk in the remote Altai Mountains near the Mongolian border-1,800 crow-flight miles from Moscow. The area is part of the Karaganda administration of Gulag, the vast slave-labor system that Malenkov helped found. In Ust Kamenogorsk, Malenkov will be constantly watched. If his exile follows the pattern of previous top-party banishments (Trotsky was banished to the same province), he will be amply supplied with creature comforts and vodka, but there will be no escape...
...espionage, security and surveillance agencies, but by dominating innumerable inspection, control, auditing and credentials committees and commissions, reached down into every corner of Soviet life; their chauffeurs abroad gave orders to ambassadors. In the shape of Gulag (literally, State Administration of Camps), the NKVD was the undisguised administrator of vast areas of the Soviet hinterland...
...kingdom, a sovereign without subjects, but his inherited spiritual authority fell upon his shoulders at a time when British rule was strong in the Moslem world. Reared by a strong-minded and worldly wise mother, his Moslem training tempered by English tutors, young Mahomed learned early to reconcile the vast differences in two disparate worlds and from the beginning cast his lot and his influence in the direction of British authority. When the Germans tried to win over Islam in World War I, the Aga Khan did much to keep his followers steadfast beside the British. A grateful Britain...
...though three of these had become hysterical in previous pregnancies. A year after giving birth, the mental state of three women was improved, and in 14 there was no change. In only one case was it adjudged worse-a schizophrenic, 18, who was unmarried. Concludes Psychiatrist Arkle: "In the vast majority of cases the decision not to intervene was the correct one as judged by the law in this country . . . It seems likely that, to an unbalanced woman, the stimulus of a normal pregnancy is less deleterious than [abortion] . . . The psychiatrist must not allow the sociologists and geneticists to deceive...
Throughout the novel the whole vast, vague Russian steppe slips from its habitual disorder into the anarchy of revolution. Trains do not arrive. Officers are suddenly bereft of rank, people of homes. Families lose touch. If the book sometimes reads like a primer, there is probably a good reason: the alphabet of this revolution is still being learned. Troyat has none of the exile's bitterness, but might well claim title to the words of one of his own refugee characters:"Where I am, there is Russia...