Word: oblast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the 70-odd writers and critics present in the yellow brick Moscow Oblast Court must have been one adept at shorthand, because this account of the two-day trial is detailed and chillingly convincing. How it reached the West, British Editor-Translator Max Hayward does not say, but it must have followed a secret route like the one that brought him Sinyavsky-Tertz's The Trial Begins in 1960. That grotesque account of a woman who procures an abortion during the black days of the Stalinist "Doctor's Plot" of 1952 was a key element...
...Banner, official organ of the Moscow District party, bared the Great Nipple Shortage. Last week, after tracing the problem from drugstore to Kremlin level, a pair of reporters revealed that there is not a single soska (rubber baby-bottle nipple) to be had in all the Moscow oblast. Although last year's central economic plan called for the production of 30 million nipples, only 12 million were actually manufactured.* The crusading reporters declared that the only plant making surgical rubber was denied authorization to increase production by the planners...
...search of Lebensraum. In a blistering editorial, Pravda pointed out that Peking had published a history textbook containing a map that showed China's frontiers as including parts of the Soviet far east-the Maritime Krai, Vladivostok and Sakhalin; a large part of Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast; parts of Kirgizia, Tadzhikistan and Kazakhstan as far west as Lake Balk hash. This reinterpretation of geography would in effect push the Chinese border as much as 300 miles into the Soviet Union (see map). In a fit of Asian self-righteousness, Peking also demanded that Russia return to Japan...
...less talk of peaceful coexistence, and its striving for Chinese pre-eminence over Moscow in Asian affairs. A sign of Russian worry over Red China's ambition came last week in one of those veiled moves that can have considerable significance in the Communist world: the obscure Soviet oblast (province) of Tuva, on the border of the undecided satellite of Outer Mongolia, was abruptly raised to the status of an "autonomous Soviet Republic...