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Echoes of a Native Land follows the author's ancestors, the Osorgins, from a time of peace in Koltsovo during the reign of the last tsar to the time of their expulsion from Russia during the Bolshevik revolution. Simultaneously, it traces the history of the peasants of the village to the present...
...Their number was small and many were almost as old as the Bolshevik takeover itself. ?They don?t have a lot else to be enthusiastic about,? observed TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier...
...fruitful collaboration with the regime is especially peculiar because Ehrenburg was an early and vocal anti-Bolshevik. Born to a middle-class Jewish family in Kiev in 1891, he joined the Party in his teens but later quit in disgust at its intolerance and inability to understand art. Instead he lived as a Bohemian in Paris, making friends with Diego Rivera and Picasso. Even the Revolution didn't win him over to Communism; he returned to Russia in 1918, only to leave again three years later and write his first novel, The Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples...
...style road show were in place: the mink-hatted acolytes, the handpicked entourage of veterans, the phalanx of sullen, gray-coated security agents. But as Yeltsin delivered his rambling speech, it was apparent that something had gone awry. One moment he was pledging to save Russia from a new Bolshevik revolution, the next he was suggesting that female employees of a local chocolate factory pair off with single military cadets. When he finally wound down, the lackluster applause demonstrated all too clearly that even in Yekaterinburg, Yeltsin had lost his appeal. "We've heard so many promises, but what...
...what is that compared with Dole attacking the capitalists? A man whose overriding concern always seemed to be keeping the world safe for Archer-Daniels-Midland now talks like a Bolshevik. This is beyond living amoebas...