The "great break" has been part of the conventional wisdom of western scholars for decades: Robert C Tucker, Kotkin's predecessor at Princeton, made it the centrepiece of the transition to the second volume of his Stalin biography, Stalin in Power, and it's prominent in Adam Ulam's Stalin, published in 1973.
This is a theme, as I perhaps should have said, that recurs again and again in the prison literature — it's prominent, for instance, in Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow" — and represents a hidden, though clear, cost of mass incarceration.
This isn't something unique to Russia, but it's an element of the justice process that gets a lot of play in the press - especially if it's prominent oppositionists on trial.
When Kimberly Schwartz first stumbled across a nude beach, "I'd never been to one in my life, and it was hard for me to believe they existed in this country, even though I knew it's prominent in France," she said.
When you do work that is socially and politically relevant, there is a "huge possibility for benefit; and at the same time, if you do work and it angers people for whatever reason and it's prominent, people are going to jump on you," Douglas says.
Today, it's prominent and in your face.
It was prominent in the Conservative Party's poster campaign and was repeated frequently during spring's television debates.
The U.D.C.'s New York chapter is now defunct, but it was prominent through the nineteen-sixties.
Now, many people know Ungaro because it was prominent in the '80s and '90s.
During the Middle Ages it was prominent in eastern European courts, where it was used to accompany singing and dancing.
It is prominent, though, in Latino culture, where it's called El Día de los Niños (April 30).
