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There is no equivalent to the Nielsen ratings in the Soviet Union, but according to the latest "popularity index" in the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta, Soviet audiences ranked View and Before and After Midnight in first and third place. TV viewers now have such an insatiable appetite for information that news and talk shows occupy seven of the Top Ten spots. As Boris Purgalin, a former scriptwriter for TV entertainment programs, notes, "Who would find sports interesting anymore, when talk shows turn into a real battle of opinions...
With the flowering of glasnost, some extraordinary things have begun appearing in the Soviet press. Among the more remarkable is this essay by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko, 54, published last month in the journal Literaturnaya Gazeta. Excerpts...
First carried in October 1985 by the Soviet Weekly "Literaturnaya Gazeta," the Soviet claim was immediately denied by the State Department and dismissed as propaganda...
Back in 1958 I witnessed the expulsion of Boris Pasternak from the Writers' ( Union. Some even demanded that he be thrown out of the country. They called him a "pig rooting in our Soviet garden." Today Historian Dmitri Likhachev in a Literaturnaya Gazeta article unequivocally demands that Doctor Zhivago be published. Today our literary journals are preparing important books for publication: Vladimir Dudintsev writing about Stalin's suppression of genetics; Anatoli Pristavkin on the forced resettlement of ethnic Chechens from the Caucasus; Anatoli Rybakov on the assassination of Sergei Kirov. All these subjects were banned in the past...
More surprising still was an article in Literaturnaya Gazeta by Vladimir Tsvetov, a Soviet television commentator and former Tokyo correspondent. Tsvetov criticized the Soviet media's coverage of capitalist countries, which are almost always depicted as hotbeds of strikes, protests, poverty and police violence, as if those countries were on the verge of the proletarian revolutions that Karl Marx predicted 136 years ago. Privately, some Soviet officials are critical of -- and even embarrassed by -- that kind of coverage, and would like to see more discussion of the positive aspects of the capitalist world, especially advances in science and technology. Other...