Word: eyewitnesser
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Sukhanov was the first candid cameraman of the Russian Revolution: in seven volumes, he chronicled its events with movie vividness. As an original member of the Executive Committee of the first Soviet, he also co-directed the early scenes. Sukhanov was an economist, the editor (under Maxim Gorky...
But for the tabloids, whose readers thirst for backstairs gossip, the drab releases are not enough. They thrive on rumors (most of them inaccurate) picked up from various royal employees-and occasionally on eyewitness accounts by those who have left the royal household. On all such journalistic works the palace...
Cold & Deep. N.Z.Z.'s 15 full-time and 20 part-time correspondents (four in the U.S.) make up the biggest foreign staff of any newspaper of its circulation in the world. But they seldom bother with spot news. For example, on June 17, 1953, the paper's Berlin...
But Salisbury got an eyewitness view of how little Russia has actually changed in a 12,000-mile trip that he made through the Soviet North and eastern Siberia. "It was," says Salisbury, "probably the most extensive survey of this . . . region by an American since the 1880s." That part of...
Two new books will be invaluable keys both to Turgenev and to the "mystery" of Russian slavishness. The Turgenev Family, an eyewitness report written in 1884 by Varvara Zhitova, adopted daughter of Turgenev's mother, is like the beginning of a psychiatrist's case history: it deals with...