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...courtroom 14 years ago. The 63-year-old advocate brought to America a treasured photo of Sasha, grown up, that is touchingly inscribed to her. But she has other, tragic memories of the dissidents she could not save from injustice: Yuri Galanskov, who died of mistreatment in the Gulag; Ilya Gabay, who killed himself in despair; Anatoli Marchenko, who was sent back to the camps for ten years after three terms of imprisonment and exile...
...cover the whole world with asphalt, but a few blades of green grass will always break through," concluded Soviet Novelist Ilya Ehrenburg, as the Stalin era faded. And still they come: surprising new writers who have shattered the deadening conventions of the past. They have recoiled from the novel, viewing it as prefabricated Stalinist architecture. The genre of choice is the short story or novella. Many writers have managed gradually to escape from Socialist Realism, with its obligatory jargon and hortatory themes, traveling a world away -back to 19th century realism. Even Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the two major...
Well, not quite. Pravda had sent Correspondent Ilya Shatunovsky to see the miracle in action. What he actually found was a dilapidated fence guarded by an elderly watchman armed with an antique rifle. Peering through holes in the fence, Shatunovsky glimpsed a wasteland: "Some bare scaffolding standing amid broken bricks and lumps of dry cement." Where was the factory? The answer: there wasn...
...NASA better select crewmen for submarines and spacecraft. Calling the project "monkey business," Proxmire announced in news releases and newsletters that he had honored it with one of his monthly "Golden Fleece Awards." Hutchinson sued him for $8 million in damages for libel. Another case involved a man named Ilya Wolston, a former State Department interpreter, who had been cited for contempt for refusing to appear before a grand jury investigating Soviet intelligence in 1958. He later cooperated, and was never indicted for espionage. When in 1974 Wolston was listed in a book called KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet...
...Russia, where there was virtually no tradition of sculpture, the planar impulse took two directions. One-as its name, suprematism, indicates-tried to transcend the material world. The painter Kasimir Malevich and his students, like Ilya Chashnik, devised reliefs and models that in their crisscross of small rectangular shapes and larger blocks resemble models for imaginary buildings or cities. They were, in a very rarefied sense, social blueprints, though quite unworkable ones. Perhaps Russia was the only country in which artists could seriously imagine that abstract art might attain the moral compulsion of a holy picture. Chashnik's Large...