Word: afanasyev
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These are the public signs of the rise of the right, symptoms of the approaching dictatorship Shevardnadze warned against. Only a year ago, the liberal Interregional Group of Deputies, led by maverick Boris Yeltsin, Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov and crusading historian Yuri Afanasyev and claiming more than 300 members, held the parliamentary center stage. The group called a meeting on the eve of this Congress session and fewer than 90 members turned up. Setting the pace now is the bloc of about 470 conservative Deputies calling themselves Soyuz, or Union, and dedicated to preventing the breakup of the U.S.S.R...
...FOOL AND THE FISH by Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (Dial; $12.95). Ivan is that classic Russian archetype, the wise idiot. When he catches a talking pike, it strikes a bargain: if Ivan casts it back into the icy water, his every wish will be granted. The result is riches, fame -- and problems. Gennady Spirin's paintings exhibit the palette of Russian icons and the surreal quality of Bruegel landscapes...
...such patriots, the greatest threat to the motherland comes from "radical liberals" who are plotting to seize power. The nationalists point fingers at members of the reformist Interregional Group of parliamentary Deputies, such as Moscow populist Boris Yeltsin and historian Yuri Afanasyev, and at staunch glasnost editors like Yegor Yakovlev of the weekly Moscow News. But Enemy No. 1 remains Politburo liberal Alexander Yakovlev. They have never forgiven him for a 1972 article that blasted writers who glorified Russia's peasant past -- a risky political act that earned Yakovlev exile as Ambassador to Canada until he returned to Moscow...