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... seemed to be all higgledy - piggledy , a jumble of vivid colours , domes and oddly shaped houses . " Visitors noted the cosmopolitan population characteristic of a flourishing southern port , its large communities of Cossacks , Jews ...
... seemed to be all higgledy - piggledy , a jumble of vivid colours , domes and oddly shaped houses . " Visitors noted the cosmopolitan population characteristic of a flourishing southern port , its large communities of Cossacks , Jews ...
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... seemed a greater disaster than the seizure of his archive in 1965. And yet his mood was quite different . “ Not for a single hour , not for a minute , was I down - hearted on this occasion , " he later wrote . " The difference was that ...
... seemed a greater disaster than the seizure of his archive in 1965. And yet his mood was quite different . “ Not for a single hour , not for a minute , was I down - hearted on this occasion , " he later wrote . " The difference was that ...
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... seemed to have lost much of their power . He was perceived by many as a “ cold war- rior , " a stick - in - the - mud conservative with mystical leanings , a crony of George Meany and the conservative hardhats of organized labour , and ...
... seemed to have lost much of their power . He was perceived by many as a “ cold war- rior , " a stick - in - the - mud conservative with mystical leanings , a crony of George Meany and the conservative hardhats of organized labour , and ...
Contents
Preface | 13 |
Acknowledgements | 21 |
1 OUT OF CHAOS AND SUFFERING | 25 |
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