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Babies Without Tails
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781434477606
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Feb 7 2025
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This volume collects 15 short stories by Walter Duranty, reprinted from Collier's, Red Book, and other sources. Included are: The Brave Soldier and the Wicked Sorcerer, Witch of the Alcazar, The Village Maiden and the Three Bad Boys, Leningrad's Lucky House, The Gold Train, The Spirit Within, The Thrifty Peasant and the Precious Mattress, Under Sentence, The Woman Who Could Not Sleep, The Magic Egg, The Wife Who Lost Her Patience, The Crazy Poets and the Distant Star, Conspirators, Lucky in Love, and The Parrot.
Walter Duranty was best known as a journalist and foreign correspondent who reported on the Soviet Union during the early 20th century. As The New York Times' Moscow bureau chief, he covered major political and economic developments, including Stalin's Five-Year Plans and the Soviet regime's consolidation of power. Though awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage, his legacy remains controversial due to his denial of the Ukrainian Holodomor, a stance that has been widely criticized for downplaying Soviet atrocities.
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