{"quotes":[{"text":"Only then, as she prepared to cross the avenue, did she again spot the man in the fedora hat. He was at the opposite side of the street from where he’d stood before, but the caramel color of his coat was unmistakable. He was loitering in front of what looked like a Ford V8 parked nose-up on the sidewalk. Florence adjusted her shawl over her shoulders and crossed to the opposite corner of the plaza. When she turned back to look again, he was gone.","author":"Sana Krasikov","tags":["20th-century-russia","america","based-on-a-true-story","based-on-real-events","brookyln","communism","doctor-zhivago","family","feminism","love-story","moscow","mother","motherhood","political-drama","politics","romance","soviet","soviet-literature","soviet-russia","soviet-union"],"id":25747,"author_id":"Sana+Krasikov"},{"text":"Florence could feel a constriction in her chest…She had been foolish enough to hope that whatever she was walking into would affect no one but herself. Now the truth was catching up with her at the speed of her galloping heartbeat…Now they had summoned her. And they knew everything.","author":"Sana Krasikov","tags":["20th-century-russia","america","based-on-a-true-story","based-on-real-events","brookyln","communism","doctor-zhivago","family","feminism","love-story","moscow","mother","motherhood","political-drama","politics","romance","soviet","soviet-literature","soviet-russia","soviet-union"],"id":41040,"author_id":"Sana+Krasikov"},{"text":"She was arriving at a revelation that the secret to living was simply forgetting.","author":"Sana Krasikov","tags":["20th-century-russia","america","based-on-a-true-story","based-on-real-events","brookyln","communism","doctor-zhivago","family","feminism","love-story","moscow","mother","motherhood","political-drama","politics","romance","soviet","soviet-literature","soviet-russia","soviet-union"],"id":76778,"author_id":"Sana+Krasikov"},{"text":"Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["aggression","armageddon","armies","army","caucasus","caucasus-region","checkmate","checks-and-balances","cold-war","conflict-management","conflict-resolution","conflicts","cool-response","crimea","defence","defences","destruction-of-us","diplomacy","eastern-europe","eastern-european","end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it","error","errors","escalation","fear-of-unknown","fear","fears","fears-and-doubts","force","forces","forces-of-darkness","geopolitical-forces","geopolitical-tension","geopolitics","historical-perspective","history-repeating-itself","impasse","inexorably","international-community","international-relations","international-relationships","lack-of-judgement","learning-from-mistakes","lessons-learned","lessons-learned-in-life","lessons-of-life","live-and-learn","mexican-standoff","military","military-history","military","military-theory","moscow","moscow-rules","nato","nuclear-power","nuclear-proliferation","nuclear-threat","nuclear-weapons","one-upmanship","peace-on-earth","peace","peacemaker","political-commentary","political-quandary","political","politics-observation","poor-judgement","poor-leadership","power-struggle","power-struggles","quandary","red-army","regressing","regression","repeat-mistakes","repeated-mistake","repeating-the-past","rules-of-engagement","russia","russian-federation","sabre-rattling","shiver","shivers","sliding","soviet-occupation","soviet-russia","soviet-union","sphere-of-influence","spine-chilling","stalemate","standoff","struggles","super-powers","tension","treaty","troops","ukraine","warfare","warmonger","wars","weapons-of-mass-destruction"],"id":105706,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"},{"text":"The Bolshevik leaders perched atop the Mausoleum were no easier to tell apart than chess pawns. But Florence too was certain that she could recognise the twinkling eyes of Joseph Stalin, which looked down at her each workday from the oil painting above Timofeyev’s desk.","author":"Sana Krasikov","tags":["20th-century-russia","america","based-on-a-true-story","based-on-real-events","brookyln","communism","doctor-zhivago","family","feminism","love-story","moscow","mother","motherhood","political-drama","politics","romance","soviet","soviet-literature","soviet-russia","soviet-union","stalin"],"id":134574,"author_id":"Sana+Krasikov"},{"text":"A Red Riding Hood out of her depths in the woods of socialism.","author":"Sana Krasikov","tags":["20th-century-russia","america","based-on-a-true-story","based-on-real-events","brookyln","communism","doctor-zhivago","family","feminism","love-story","moscow","mother","motherhood","political-drama","politics","romance","soviet","soviet-literature","soviet-russia","soviet-union"],"id":136796,"author_id":"Sana+Krasikov"},{"text":"From the moment Julian entered the world, Florence had begun to conceive of life as separate from the aspects of its outward circumstances. Over and over, life renewed itself. Over and over, it made itself blind to the death and destruction of the past.","author":"Sana Krasikov","tags":["20th-century-russia","america","based-on-a-true-story","based-on-real-events","brookyln","communism","doctor-zhivago","family","feminism","love-story","moscow","mother","motherhood","political-drama","politics","romance","soviet","soviet-literature","soviet-russia","soviet-union"],"id":166304,"author_id":"Sana+Krasikov"},{"text":"Moscow appeared to her as an Asiatic sprawl of twisting streets, wooden shanties, and horse cabs. But already another Moscow was rising up through the chaos of the first. Streets built to accommodate donkey tracks have been torn open and replaced with boulevards broader than two or three Park Avenues. On the sidewalks, pedestrians were being detoured onto planks around enormous construction pits. A smell of sawdust and metal filings hung in the air.","author":"Sana Krasikov","tags":["20th-century-russia","america","based-on-a-true-story","based-on-real-events","brookyln","communism","doctor-zhivago","family","feminism","love-story","moscow","mother","motherhood","political-drama","politics","romance","soviet","soviet-literature","soviet-russia","soviet-union"],"id":186494,"author_id":"Sana+Krasikov"},{"text":"Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was the most Communist (and in the rather orthodox sense) of the Palestinian formations. I remember Edward once surprising me by saying, and apropos of nothing: 'Do you know something I have never done in my political career? I have never publicly criticized the Soviet Union. It’s not that I terribly sympathize with them or anything—it's just that the Soviets have never done anything to harm me, or us.' At the time I thought this a rather naïve statement, even perhaps a slightly contemptible one, but by then I had been in parts of the Middle East where it could come as a blessed relief to meet a consecrated Moscow-line atheist-dogmatist, if only for the comparatively rational humanism that he evinced amid so much religious barking and mania. It was only later to occur to me that Edward's pronounced dislike of George Orwell was something to which I ought to have paid more attention.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["atheism","communism","dflp","dogmatism","edward-said","humanism","liberation","middle-east","moscow","orwell","palestine","palestinians","politics","rationality","religion","religious-extremism","soviet-union"],"id":215393,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Their courtship unfolded in two settings, a Russian reality overlaid with New York memories.","author":"Sana Krasikov","tags":["20th-century-russia","america","based-on-a-true-story","based-on-real-events","brookyln","communism","doctor-zhivago","family","feminism","love-story","moscow","mother","motherhood","political-drama","politics","romance","soviet","soviet-literature","soviet-russia","soviet-union"],"id":265983,"author_id":"Sana+Krasikov"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}