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256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1928
Typhus victims lie in the corridors of the hospitals, waiting their turn for a bed. Lice are now called enemies of the revolution鈥�
Every day there are long lines of carts carrying coffins out beyond the gates of Moscow. These are all dead people that their relatives are taking out into the countryside to bury. There are too few gravediggers in the city cemeteries so they can鈥檛 afford to wait their turn.
鈥淥lga, your lover phoned a quarter of an hour ago鈥︹€�
She took off her hat and began coming her hair with a large tortoise-shell comb.
鈥溾€e asked you to come at nine o鈥檆lock this evening.鈥�
I stand quite motionless. I am thinking about myself, about Russians and Russia. I hate my blood, my sky, my land, my present, my past.
It is impossible to understand this country: it forgives Ivan the Terrible but tears Otrepyev to pieces; it wages unsuccessful wars for seven hundred years and conquers more nations than the Roman Empire; it is unable to produce any fuses, and yet it builds the world鈥檚 most beautiful city on a swamp.
A man who wishes to make money in Soviet Russia must be the person he needs to be. It depends on the person you are dealing with鈥攁 peasant shirt or a dinner jacket, a fool or an intelligent man, a scoundrel or a relatively decent individual.
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鈥淭ake up your rifle, worker and poor peasant! Join the requisitioning battalions. To the village and the kulaks鈥� barns, for grain! The kulaks of Simbrisk, Ufa and Samara give you no bread鈥攖ake it from the kulaks of Voronezh, Vyatka and Tambov鈥︹€�
This is what they call 鈥渢he catechism of the class-conscious proletarian.鈥�
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鈥淥lga, your lover phoned a quarter of an hour ago鈥︹€�
She took off her hat and began coming her hair with a large tortoise-shell comb.
鈥溾€e asked you to come at nine o鈥檆lock this evening.鈥�
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Typhus victims lie in the corridors of the hospitals, waiting their turn for a bed. Lice are now called enemies of the revolution.
18
Camel meat has been despatched to Moscow from the Caspian region.
19
On Sunday at two o鈥檆lock the foundation stone of the People鈥檚 Palace was laid on Karetny Ryad Street. Plans are being drawn up to build a theatre attached to the Palace. With a capacity of five thousand people it will be the second largest theatre in Europe.
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Every day there are long lines of carts carrying coffins out beyond the gates of Moscow. These are all dead people that their relatives are taking out into the countryside to bury. There are so few gravediggers in the city cemeteries that they can鈥檛 afford to wait their turn.
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The Council of People鈥檚 Commissars has decreed the withdrawal from passenger trains of first class and second class carriages, with measures to be taken immediately to convert them to third class carriages.
31
From tomorrow the gas-lamps in the city鈥檚 streets will not be lit.
35
All movement of passenger trains bas been halted.
携 褋褌芯褞 薪械锌芯写胁懈卸薪芯. 携 写褍屑邪褞 芯 褋械斜械, 芯 褉芯褋褋懈褟薪邪褏, 芯 袪芯褋褋懈懈. 携 薪械薪邪胁懈卸褍 褋胁芯褞 泻褉芯胁褜, 褋胁芯械 薪械斜芯, 褋胁芯褞 蟹械屑谢褞, 褋胁芯械 薪邪褋褌芯褟褖械械, 褋胁芯械 锌褉芯褕谢芯械; 褝褌懈 芦褋胁褟褌褘薪懈禄 懈 芦褌胁械褉写褘薪懈禄, 蟹邪谐邪卸械薪薪褘械 褌邪褌邪褉邪屑懈, 谢褟褏邪屑懈, 谢懈褌芯胁褑邪屑懈, 褎褉邪薪褑褍蟹邪屑懈 懈 谐芯谢褕褌懈薪褋泻懈屑懈 褑邪褉褟屑懈; 芦写褍斜芯胁褘泄 谐芯褉芯写禄, 褋褉褍斜谢械薪薪褘泄 袣邪谢懈褌芯泄, 芦谐芯褉芯写 泻邪屑械薪禄, 锌芯褋褌邪胁谢械薪薪褘泄 袙芯谢芯写懈屑懈褉芯屑 懈 谢芯屑邪薪薪褘泄 芦写芯 锌芯写芯褕胁褘禄 袩械褌褉芯屑; 褝褌懈 褑械褉泻芯胁泻懈 鈥� 褉械锌泻邪屑懈, 泻褍锌芯谢邪 鈥� 褋胁械泻芯谢泻邪屑懈 懈 泻芯谢芯泻芯谢褜薪懈褑褘 鈥� 屑芯褉泻芯胁泻邪屑懈.