Word: petrograd
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...fortress was more vital to the defense of the Soviet nation than the enclave of battleships and guns at Kronstadt. Perched on an island in the Gulf of Fniland 20 miles off Petrograd, it guarded the naval approaches to Russia's largest and former capital city, and its capture could place an enemy within easy grasp of the country's industrial and intellectual center...
...rules, and began to enact an already agreed-upon political program: the creation of a strong, independent, self-governing soviet that guaranteed extensive intellectual and personal liberties. But the sailors never really attempted by themselves to spread their particular revolt, forcibly or otherwise. They leafletted sporadically in the Petrograd area and in the end felt somewhat betrayed by the city's inaction, but they never strove to move their experiment beyond the island fortress. They believed instead that the revolt would generate itself in most other areas, such were the depths of their confidence in spontaneous insurrection...
...wartime governance in turn, led to a mass of strikes and rural unrest that nearly brought the regime to its knees. As winter set in, supply levels in the major cities approached subsistence levels and the populace began blaming the party for all the misfortune. Labor protest crippled Petrograd in February 1921, and peasant revolt flared as never before. The government deftly maneuvered itself out of these crises but nevertheless felt the blow, and at a party congress in March, Lenin finally introduced the agricultural liberalization that was to become the cornerstone of his New Economic Policy...
...only Russians who felt the acute pangs of economic collapse and the excessive denials of "war communism." They began to perceive that, if they should make the government in Moscow a target of militant protest, they would not be alone in their sympathies. In this regard, the events in Petrograd during the last two weeks in February were absolutely inflammatory. If they were to pick up the gun, the sailors thought, many on the mainland and in the Imperial City itself would join them...
...puns, jokes, are offered in an almost endless flow. The visitors from TIME had come forewarned. The New York office contains a surprising number of longtime Nabokov experts. Contributing Editor Mark Vishniak, a member of the magazine's Russian Desk since 1946, knew Nabokov's father in Petrograd. The families fled the country together in 1919. Later, in Paris, Vishniak edited a Russian quarterly that published young Vladimir's early novels. Researcher Vera Kovarsky, who also escaped to France with her family during the Russian Revolution, remembers Nabokov from literary evenings in Paris. Contributing Editor Alwyn...