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SILENCE by Yuri Bondaryev. 254 pages. Houghfon M/ffl/n...
...sops go, Yuri Bondaryev's Silence is an especially cynical one. It was tossed to the Russian public at a time (1962) when Khrushchev was touching up his image as a liberalizer. It is tossed to the U.S. public at a time when the Soviet regime is anxious to make the West forget that two Russian writers...
...second inspection, however, Bondaryev seems to be dealing more in apologetics than in admonitions. He carefully distinguishes between the villain and the party. The villain is presented as a fascist infiltrator who got into the party by a trick; the party is presented as the Mystical Body of Marx, the Bride of History invested with infallibility. Current conditions are meticulously unmentioned. Conditions under Stalin are discussed with an almost complicitous complacency-police brutality, for instance, is noted only once, and then it is dismissed as a "mistake" that stems from "love for Stalin" and certainly "cannot last...
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