Word: amalrik
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...historical fact that Rasputin, for a Russian of his time, was unusually friendly to Jews. Considering his besmirched reputation in other respects, Rasputin would appear to be an unlikely hero to Soviet human rights activists. But at least one celebrated dissident has taken up his cause. Andrei Amalrik told TIME last week that he was writing a book on Rasputin that would show the monk had a good influence on Tsar Nicholas II. "Rasputin was a very simple person with very good ideas," said the exiled Russian writer, who is doing research at the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto, Calif...
...ethnic minorities, which constitute 53% of the Soviet Union's population, as compared with a total 6% minority population in China. Yet it was a revolt of the Soviets' restive minorities that provided a central drama a decade ago in the prophecy by Soviet Dissident Andrei Amalrik, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? After serving a term of exile in Siberia, Amalrik was allowed to emigrate to the West...
...work's timing is surely not coincidental. The Chinese invasion of Viet Nam last February plunged Sino-Soviet relations to a new low, and the U.S. normalization of ties with China revived Moscow's anxiety about a possible Peking-Washington rapprochement, one of the events predicted in Amalrik's Will the Soviet Union Survive...
...David Aikman. The human rights campaign is cheered not only by the active opponents of the harsh Communist regimes but also by most of the people, who fondly associate the policy with the kind of American evangelical fervor that prompted Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. As Soviet Dissident Andrei Amalrik told Aikman: "The morality of the West is human rights...
...many non-Communist lands, a Sakharov would not be allowed to speak out at all, or an Amalrik to leave the country. Still, the policies of most of these countries, however reprehensible, often pale in comparison with Soviet practices. Few nations, in fact, can match the institutional framework of repression embodied in the prisons and insane asylums of the Soviet Union's Gulag archipelago...