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Every Tuesday for the past decade, the Soviet Academy of Sciences had dispatched an official car to pick up Physicist Andrei Sakharov and take him to one of the academy's weekly seminars. Last week, as his Volga sedan turned into Leninsky Prospekt toward the imposing 19th century academy building, uniformed militiamen halted the automobile, seized Sakharov and hustled him to the Moscow prosecutor's office. The 1975 Nobel Peace Prize winner was under arrest, as the Kremlin at long last moved to silence the Soviet Union's most celebrated dissident...
...cars with mounted loudspeakers blaring messages of friendship and reassurance. But the Russian presence was keenly felt if not always seen, and after dark it materialized in force. "Nobody has any illusions about the fact that Kabul today is run. by men with well-oiled Kalashnikov rifles and chauffered Volga sedans," TIME Correspondent David DeVoss reported from the Afghan capital. "Every night, just before 11 p.m. curfew, fleets of armored personnel carriers roll into Kabul from depots outside. Bristling with four machine guns each, they rumble alongside the frozen Kabul River past shuttered mosques and deserted bazaars, and halt momentarily...
...Russian Empire has been conceived as a journey traversing what was the largest empire in modern history. Obolensky has charted the course from St. Petersburg and Moscow, across the Volga, the Urals and Siberia to the empire's frontier on the Pacific Ocean. The photographs then take the viewer back through Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Crimea to Russia's western borderlands at the Carpathian Mountains and the Baltic Sea. This approach permits Obolensky to include some of the exotic peoples and tribes that, like the Russians who colonized them, have long since lost much of their...
STALINGRAD. By the summer of 1942, the German armies had driven deep into Russia, and in August, General Friedrich Paulus' Sixth Army closed in on Stalingrad on the Volga. The Soviets resisted fiercely. As fall and then the bitter winter set in. Paulus' men inched into Stalingrad, fighting house to house. But like Napoleon, Hitler had come too far into Russia and reckoned without the Russian cold. The suffering and bravery of Stalingrad in that terrible winter became a new myth of an enduring Soviet Union. The Red Army, under Georgi Zhukov, managed to encircle Paulus...
...demands of dissenting national groups such as the Crimean Tartars (deported by Stalin to Siberia and who wish to return to their homeland), or the Jews and Volga Germans (who wish to emigrate to Israel or Germany), do not pose an automatic ideological challenge--though when linked to the protest of intellectuals they can form a serious challenge. Perhaps most potentially disturbing is the emergence of a genuine workers' movement agitating for independent trade union activity with a potential mass appeal. This explains why the authorities have clamped down so heavily on Vladimir Klebanov and his numerically small group...