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Former White Russian army officer Mikhail Tikonoff is on the University payroll...
WHEN THE GODS ARE SILENT (506 pp.) -Mikhail Soloviev-McKay...
...early teens, Mikhail Soloviev served as mascot to Budenny's Red cavalry. Later he was sent to school to be molded into one of Stalin's new Soviet leaders. He became a writer for Izvestia, the government paper, first as Siberian correspondent and then as Kremlin reporter. Soloviev got to know most of the big shots, including Big Brother himself, but when the purges came, he was fired and packed off to an outlying province...
...defeated the famed Jose Capablanca in tournament play. He has had only one chance at the world's championship. In 1948 Reshevsky, three Soviet grand masters and the Dutch champion Max Euwe played for the title left vacant by the death of Alexander Alekhine. Russia's Mikhail Botvinnik won the title; Reshevsky tied for third with another Soviet player, Paul Keres. Though he didn't win first prize, Reshevsky is convinced he can defeat Botvinnik in match play, the usual way in which world championships are determined. As a step toward a meeting with Botvinnik, Sammy...
Leontovich, Mikhail Rasumny, Kurt Kasznar and Oscar Karlweis are believably human and humorous as toast-quaffing, banquet-tossing Georgians...