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* CrapsackWorld: Rubashov describes the Country of the Revolution as this: "In order to defend the existence of the country, we have to take exceptional measures and make transition-stage laws, which are in every point contrary to the aims of the Revolution. The people’s standard of life is lower than it was before the Revolution; the labour conditions are harder, the discipline is more inhuman, the piece-work drudgery worse than in colonial countries with native coolies; we have lowered the age limit for capital punishment down to twelve years; our sexual laws are more narrow-minded than those of England, our leader-worship more Byzantine than that of the reactionary dictatorships. Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national Institution, and with the most refined scientific system of physical and mental torture."
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* CrapsackWorld: Rubashov describes the Country of the Revolution as this: "In this:
-->"In order to defend the existence of the country, we have to take exceptional measures and make transition-stage laws, which are in every point contrary to the aims of the Revolution. The people’s standard of life is lower than it was before the Revolution; the labour conditions are harder, the discipline is more inhuman, the piece-work drudgery worse than in colonial countries with native coolies; we have lowered the age limit for capital punishment down to twelve years; our sexual laws are more narrow-minded than those of England, our leader-worship more Byzantine than that of the reactionary dictatorships. Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national Institution, and with the most refined scientific system of physical and mental torture."
-->"In order to defend the existence of the country, we have to take exceptional measures and make transition-stage laws, which are in every point contrary to the aims of the Revolution. The people’s standard of life is lower than it was before the Revolution; the labour conditions are harder, the discipline is more inhuman, the piece-work drudgery worse than in colonial countries with native coolies; we have lowered the age limit for capital punishment down to twelve years; our sexual laws are more narrow-minded than those of England, our leader-worship more Byzantine than that of the reactionary dictatorships. Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national Institution, and with the most refined scientific system of physical and mental torture."
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Sidney Kingsley adapted the novel into a Broadway play in 1951 starring Creator/ClaudeRains, who won a Tony Award for playing Rubashov opposite a young Creator/JackPalance as Gletkin.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: No. 406, nicknamed "Rip Van Winkle", has apparently spent so much time in different prisons that his grip on reality has weakened. When he and Rubashov have a brief moment of interaction in the prison yard, it becomes obvious he doesn't even know he is in the Country of the Revolution, believing that he was put on the wrong train and ended up somewhere else.
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* OldCopYoungCop: Rubashov's chillingly pragmatic old friend Ivanov and the young zealot Gletkin are a WellIntentionedExtremist SecretPolice version who embody the old and new generations of Soviets as they try to make Rubashov confess to crimes that he is sometimes only guilty of FromACertainPointOfView.
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* TheLostLenore: Arlova, Rubashov's former secretary. Rubashov recalls her in a sisterly light, but the scent of her body lingers with him, as does the curve of her neck, which may have been where she was shot after he made her take the heat for him.
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* TheLostLenore: Arlova, Rubashov's former secretary.secretary and lover. Rubashov recalls her in a sisterly light, but the scent of her body lingers with him, as does the curve of her neck, which may have been where she was shot after he made her take the heat for him.
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Karma Houdini really applies more in a type of story where you expect villains to be punished. This is very much not that kind of story.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[TortureTechnician Gletkin]] and [[GreaterScopeVillain Number One]] never recieve any punishment.
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Sidney Kingsley adapted the novel into a Broadway play in 1951 starring Creator/ClaudeRains, who won a Tony Award for playing Rubashov.
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Sidney Kingsley adapted the novel into a Broadway play in 1951 starring Creator/ClaudeRains, who won a Tony Award for playing Rubashov.
Rubashov opposite a young Creator/JackPalance as Gletkin.
