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...such dark brooding is in order in the Soviet Union. Spies are good guys, pure and simple, as long as they are on the Soviet side. Even in czarist times, secret agents were regarded as legitimate and indispensable protectors of a sprawling empire that was surrounded by hostile forces and infested with political malcontents and agitators. Backward in so many other respects, Russia was precocious in developing a police apparatus. That institution was ready-made for the Bolsheviks, with their militant ideology and their conspiratorial, secretive methods. According to Marxism-Leninism, politics is a continuation of war by other means...
...Event might have come from a pocket in Gogol's Overcoat. In a provincial village of czarist Russia, a portrait painter and his unfaithful wife fearfully await an ex-convict who once threatened them with violence. Again an ambiguous reality intrudes: a character remembers being told, "I and my brother were played by one and the same actor, only in the part of my brother he was good, and in mine he was bad." In a central scene the principals remain themselves, but some of the supporting cast become painted representations...
Most of the Soviet Union's economic and social ills can be traced to one source: the bureaucracy. Therein lies Gorbachev's basic problem. The bureaucracy is the Soviet system, its ubiquity guaranteed by the cardinal socialist tenet of central planning. Born in the mists of Russia's czarist past, rooted firmly in the totalitarian present, this permanent government has so far survived all attempts, most half-hearted, at reform...
...Amfitheatrof, each ritual had its memorable moments. "Brezhnev's was the first of my Red Square state funerals, but I missed it," he says. "I chose instead to be one of 30 journalists permitted to go into the Kremlin's pearl white, czarist-era Hall of St. George to watch the world's leaders express condolences to Brezhnev's successor, Andropov." Amfitheatrof had armed himself with a strong pair of Soviet-made binoculars to monitor Andropov's expression as he greeted such disparate visitors as George Bush and Fidel Castro. "The binoculars were large and conspicuous," recalls Amfitheatrof...
...public debate about the ART's production production--ignoressociety's interest in protecting Endgame original form. More and more, we recognize a social value in preserving cultural objects in their original form. With physical objects preservation is easy. Even Soviet leaders to gilt the onion domes of their czarist predecessors without too much in the way of ideological acrobatics. With performing arts preservation of the original script in a value may preserve it, at least in a way many Greek tragedies were not, but this is hardly maintaining the work...