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Even as some dissidents were enjoying their first days of freedom, Soviet authorities were cracking down on refuseniks, citizens who have asked to be allowed to emigrate but have been refused. Last Monday a group of about 20 refuseniks, mostly Soviet Jews, gathered on Arbat Street, a historic Moscow thoroughfare recently renovated into a pedestrian mall. They stood for 90 minutes with signs that read FREE YOSIF BEGUN and LET US GO TO ISRAEL. Begun, who in 1983 was sentenced to twelve years of prison and exile for publishing anti-Soviet literature, has recently been placed under "strict regime," meaning...
...arts, long-suppressed films started coming off shelves and books out of desk drawers. The Chopping Block, a new novel by Chingiz Aitmatov, features drugs as its theme and a former seminarian as its hero. Anatoli Rybakov's forthcoming novel The Children of the Arbat deals with Stalinist terror. This new freedom, said Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko, has developed into a "pre-Renaissance" of the arts...
...select audiences in Moscow and Tbilisi. Blending fact and fantasy, the film conveys the message that the Soviet Union has yet to acknowledge the horrors of Stalinism. In another dramatic first, a spring 1987 publication date was announced for Soviet Author Anatoli Rybakov's The Children of the Arbat, a major novel about the Stalin era in which the dictator himself is a leading character...
...Country. New ski hotels in the Caucasus attract rising young bureaucrats and party officials, and diners-out in Moscow can see an elaborate floor show at the huge Arbat restaurant, with gypsy dancing, jugglers and magicians. Yet long lines are still a feature of Moscow life; they form daily outside the Georgian-style Aragvi restaurant and the popular Seventh Heaven, a new yet already shabby revolving restaurant 700 ft. up the 1,600-ft.-high Moscow television tower. The Bolshoi Theater is sold out weeks in advance, and outside the Moscow Circus people queue up in hopes of last-minute...