I'm not sure if it would have been so surprising in 1935, Max.
On 15 January 2011 09:41, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Aylmer Maude, Tolstoy's translator, in a footnote, page 56, Tales of Army
> Life,
> writes:
>
> Russians in the Caucasus used the word 'Tartar' loosely for any of the
> native
> Mohammedan tribes (Circassians, Kabardans, &c), much as among ourselves the
> word
> 'Niggers' is used to denote almost any dark race.
>
> The World's Classics edition of 1935 was reprinted 1943.
>
> Perhaps it is Maude's 'among ourselves' which is most surprising.
>
> Max
>
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