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Sponsored by the Waltham-based Action For Soviet Jewry, the six women journeyed to Moscow for two days, Riga for two and one-half days, and Leningrad for four days...
...only with the uncertainties of their craft but against indifference to their art. Fortunately, Brodsky is much more than another exile expected to tell ghost stories about Soviet oppression. He is a major literary figure linked directly to a great tradition, and he never forgets it. His native Leningrad (formerly St. Petersburg) is the birthplace of Russian writing. It is also the nursery of totalitarianism. Brodsky elaborates the point in "A Guide to a Renamed City" by contrasting two monuments. On one side of the Neva stands the "Bronze Horseman," the equestrian statue of Peter the Great. Across the river...
...Czar and revolutionary were despots under whom persecuted Russians managed to write and appreciate great poetry and prose. Both gave their names to Brodsky's city. He, in turn, adds a dimension that makes it difficult to return to ordinary reality. The Neva and its canals, he says, make Leningrad narcissistic: "Reflected every second by thousands of square feet of running silver amalgam, it's as if the city were constantly being filmed by its river, / which discharges its footage into the Gulf of Finland...
...ZAIKOV, 62, the former Leningrad party boss who was already in the Secretariat, became a full member of the Politburo. Zaikov thus becomes one of the most powerful men in the country, along with Gorbachev and Party Ideologist Yegor Ligachev...
Aware that any Soviet leader needs the support of the secret police, Gorbachev arranged last April for KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov, 62, to become a full member of the Politburo. He also endorsed the popular Leningrad party chief, Lev Zaikov, 62, for membership in the Central Committee Secretariat...