IN 1940, WHEN he was twenty-two years old, Fyodor Mochulsky received his diploma from the Railroad Transport Engineering Institute in Moscow. A promising student and a largely contented Soviet archetype, he was a candidate member of the Communist Party and his speech was made heavy with the cumbersome lingua franca of high Stalinism. After graduation, he readied himself for factory life, or as he put it, “any practical work they had for me in any region of our huge country.”
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