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...sneak preview of the latest Tom Clancy effulgence? Hardly. This frightening scenario of Soviet collapse, titled Nevozraschenets (The Non- Returnee), was published last June in Iskusstvo Kino, the official journal of the Soviet movie industry. Its appearance reflects a mood of unprecedented pessimism and self-doubt, in which intellectuals and political figures have been speculating somberly about the catastrophes that could befall the Soviet Union if perestroika falls apart. Last September, for example, political oppositionist Boris Yeltsin, a former Moscow party boss, repeatedly warned of an impending disaster. "We are on the edge of an abyss," Yeltsin told a rapt...
...sculptor find bronze, steel or plaster without union approval? How can a painter get access to studio space, even paints and canvas? How and where can the work be exhibited? How can anyone hear about it except by word of mouth, since all art writing in magazines like Iskusstvo (Art) or Sovietskaya Kultura is a direct emanation of union views, themselves determined by the Ministry of Culture...
Before he can hope to make another film, Eisenstein may have to eat humble pie, like the magazine Sovietskoe Iskusstvo (Soviet Art), recently denounced by Pravda because its critics were too polite to Soviet artists. Last week Iskusstvo crawled for three whole columns: "To our sorrow, very often an objective critical analysis of a work was replaced by out-of-place praise. In articles about some plays, Carmen for instance ... we wrote in delightful tones. But it was a quite ordinary performance...
...knows his Deweys. A dynamo of energy, he not only directs the Commissariat (Ministry) for Education, but writes plays, is President of the Moscow Society of Dramatic Writers & Composers, and acts as supervising editor of three Moscow publications: Novy Mir (The New World), Krestyanka (The Peasant Woman), and Iskusstvo Trudyaschimsya (Art for the Workers). Lastly Comrade Lunacharsky is Director of the Institute of Archaeology and the Science of Art. His principles are Red; but his brain is fully capable of coping with that of the tall, untidy man who resembles Robert Louis Stevenson...
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