Word: editoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...News Editor for This Issue: Ross G. Forman '90 Night Editors: Colin F. Boyle '90 Andrew D. Cohen '92 Ross G. Forman '90 Brian R. Hecht '92 Teresa A. Mullin '90 Tara A. Nayak '92 Features Editor: Stephen E. Findley '91 Editorial Editor: Emily M. Bernstein '90 Sports Editor: Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editor: Gavin R. Villareal '90 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Copy Editor: Seth E. Wilson...
When a group of intellectuals and artists were sitting around Moscow debating this question, one of them asked what it would take for the hard- liners to reverse glasnost. "All they'd have to do is fire about six editors," someone replied. "I think one would do it," said another. But even though such a clampdown could occur, it could not erase the ideas or the taste for open discussion that has been liberated. Says Sergei Zalygin, editor of the crusading literary monthly Novy Mir: "How it will end we do not know, but there is no turning back...
Alexander Podrabinek, an underground-newspaper editor who was once exiled to Siberia for nearly six years for examining Soviet psychiatry in a book titled Punitive Medicine, contends that the changes are strictly cosmetic. Even though the special psychiatric hospitals are nominally controlled by the civilian Ministry of Health, he notes, the guards are still military personnel and the doctors commissioned officers. Says Podrabinek: "The only thing that has changed is the label." He claims that new language in the regulations has actually given the government even greater latitude to misuse psychiatry. Under the old rules, "mentally ill" people could...
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE edited by Yuri Afanasayev (Progress Publishers, 1988). The definitive, argument-provoking collection of essays by such high priests of perestroika as Andrei Sakharov, economist Tatyana Zaslavskaya and Novy Mir editor in chief Sergei Zalygin...
...banned Soviet and emigre art, the competition has exposed the mediocrity of many established artists. The freshly released crop of classics has also set exceedingly high standards for aspiring artists, who were spoon-fed notions of official culture that are now held up to ridicule. Says Sergei Zalygin, editor in chief of Novy Mir: "Like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky in the past century, our artists need to find a new style and a new way of thinking if they hope to create a psychological portrait of society today...