They planned to move away from goods services to concentrate solely on serving passengers.[1]
At a time when the Soviet economy was in a downward spiral, the standard of living and housing quality improved significantly.[2][3]
Biographer William Taubman suggests that, since Khrushchev was again unsuccessfully denounced while in Kiev, he must have known that some of the denunciations were not true and that innocent people were suffering.[4] In 1939, Khrushchev addressed the Fourteenth Ukrainian Party Congress:
Comrades, we must unmask and relentlessly destroy all enemies of the people. But we must not allow a single honest Bolshevik to be harmed. We must conduct a struggle against slanderers.[4]
In fact, there is no known Parthian-language literature that survives in original form, since it was written down in the following centuries.[5] It is believed that such stories as the romantic tale Vis and Rāmin and epic cycle of the Kayanian dynasty were part of the corpus of oral literature from Parthian times, although compiled much later.[6] Although literature of the Parthian language was not committed to written form, there is evidence that the Arsacids acknowledged and respected written Greek literature.[7]
- ^ Foxell 2010, p. 72.
- ^ Sakwa 1998, p. 28.
- ^ Sakwa 1999, p. 341.
- ^ a b Taubman 2003, p. 118.
- ^ Boyce 1983, p. 1151
- ^ Boyce 1983, p. 1158–1159
- ^ Boyce 1983, p. 1154–1155; see also Kennedy 1996, p. 74
- Boyce, Mary (1983), "Parthian Writings and Literature", in Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.), Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 3, London & New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1151–1165, ISBN 0-521-20092-X.
- Foxell, Clive (2010). The Metropolitan Line: London's first underground railway. Stroud: The History Press. ISBN 978-0752453965. OCLC 501397186.
- Kennedy, David (1996), "Parthia and Rome: eastern perspectives", The Roman Army in the East, Ann Arbor: Cushing Malloy Inc., Journal of Roman Archaeology: Supplementary Series Number Eighteen, pp. 67–90, ISBN 1-887829-18-0
- Sakwa, Richard (1998). Soviet Politics in Perspective. Routledge. ISBN 0415071534.
- Sakwa (1999). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. Routledge. ISBN 0415122902.
- Taubman, William (2003), Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, W.W. Norton & Co., ISBN 0393324842