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Chudinov, "S kem voeval russkii muzhik v 1812 godu?

Most of the muzhiks I met saw pictures of Putin's mistresses, yachts and palaces, and well aware whose earnings pay for it.

To Anna, the muzhik is the impending death delivered by an anonymous class antagonist.

The romantic Cyrillic alphabet gives way to the lowly American English words, italicized as foreign to a Jewish intellectual, just as muzhik and troika are foreign, but more sympathetic than malted milk.

Over half of the non-party peasants joined the Trudoviks; a fact not even noticed by Kadets who remained suspicious of the muzhik. (69)

That's when the Muzhik gets up and wraps the towel around my neck and swings me as hard as he can against the particleboard wall next to me and there are little swimming minnows before my eyes and finally I get some sleep so deep I even dream.

So, alongside with the Russian soul of the Slavophils, Sarmatism of the Polish messianists, we find "the muzhik's lot" of the Belarusian revolutionary democrats.

Stalin bided his time and hoarded his resentment of Trotsky like a muzhik counting his kopecks.

And no matter the variety of plots depicted, the types of Russian characters portrayed remain the same: the prince, the tsar, the Cossack, the 'muzhik', the female martyr, or the seductress.

The peasant mentality of the Russian muzhik, Pipes had written in 1977, held "that cunning and coercion alone ensured survival: one employed cunning when weak, and cunning coupled with coercion when strong.

A few other examples of double-duty words: English Word Occupation Nationality lascar sailor East Indian kanaka sailor Polynesian gaucho cowboy Argentine vaquero cowboy Mexican muzhik collective farmer Russian kibbutznik collective farmer Israeli

To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the "woman question."--Ivan Turgenev

Kirov, a popular speaker and the embodiment of the simple, good-natured Russian muzhik, represented a stark contrast with Stalin, who never shed his Georgian accent or dry speaking style.