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...TRIAL BEGINS (128 pp.)-Abram Tertz, translated by Max Hayward-Pantheon...
...novel, really a philosophical fable, is an unusual book on several counts. The author, fortunately for him. is unknown. "Abram Tertz," his pseudonym, is the name of the Jewish hero of a ballad that passed the rounds in Moscow during the wave of anti-Jewish propaganda officially stirred up over the fake "Doctors' Plot" against Stalin's life in 1952. The book's manuscript was smuggled out of Russia to a group of anti-Communist Polish émigrés in France...
Religious Black Market. In their speculative notes on the unknown author, the editors of Encounter compare "Abram Tertz'' with Ilya Ehrenburg-in-exile, the scoffer who could write The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz (TIME, Aug. 22) before he turned party hack. It would not be the oddest thing about this strange and wonderful book if it turned out that Ehrenburg was in fact "Abram Tertz." Perhaps only the "psychoscope," a plug-in device invented by the secret policemen Tolya and Vitya to trace the private thoughts of citizens, will ever know the truth...
Double Purpose. While most Western specialists were happy to have a Russian confirmation of their suspicions, Harvard's Professor Abram Bergson did not think Strumilin went far enough and called his calculations "dubious." A new set of production tables compiled by the Rand Corp. show that from 1928 to 1956 the Soviet economy grew by 633%, or less than half as much as even Strumilin's revised figure...
What bothers most of the book's contributors is that there are virtually no private citizens left to question such decisions. Despite the talk of "shareholders' democracy," says Abram Chayes, professor of law at Harvard, stock is so widely scattered that shareholders have little say in how their money is used. Large stockholders, who might wield power, often dodge the issue. If dissatisfied, they simply sell out and put their money elsewhere. The one man who is still a threat to unbridled corporate power is the raider. Though he is now considered "almost illegal," says Dean Rostow...