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...many, both in Russia and the West, the government crackdown on Novy Mir and Tvardovsky's resignation marked the end of an era. Since its founding in 1928, the magazine has published most of Russia's greatest contemporary writers. During the twelve years of Tvardovsky's editorship in the post-Stalin period, Novy Mir earned the reputation of being one of the best literary magazines published in any language anywhere. In addition to fiction and poetry, Tvardovsky managed to publish articles discussing, in a veiled way, Soviet antiSemitism, the wretchedness of village life, and other subjects hardly...
According to Cooper, donations from "lots of rich, old conservatives" will provide funds to publish the paper...
...proceeded to slice away the local leaders' power bases. He leveled one charge after another at the assistants and proteges of top Cantoneses leaders, then gently coaxed their bosses to publish self-criticism and accept higher party posts outside the Canton area. Though T'ao waited months after taking command before promoting himself to the area's top party position, he soon had trusted deputies in all the sensitive local posts and governed Canton unchallenged...
...liquor prohibition into the mid-1920s; during one six-month period, the Soviet militia uncovered no fewer than 75,296 illegal stills. Since then, sales of vodka, profits to the state and the number of chronic alcoholics have all grown right along with the population. The Kremlin does not publish official statistics, but one count of Soviet souses in 1965 put the number of heavy drinkers at 10 million. Today, says the government, drunks are responsible for a major portion of violent crime, including 60% of all murders. Officials also calculate that 90% of all Soviet citizens who report late...
...with a violinist whom Schindler despised, because "they contained the grossest and most boundless criticism of the Kaiser and Crown Prince. . . ." Schindler sold 137 books to the Staatsbibliothek (State Library) in what is now East Berlin, and there they lay for more than a century. A previous attempt to publish the notebooks got as far as three volumes, but was halted by World...