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...Musical Director James D. Yannatos chose"Hour of the Soul" after hearing the piece at theThird International Music Festival forContemporary Music in Leningrad, which he attendedas a guest of the Soviet Composers Union...
BROTHERS AND SISTERS. The most acclaimed Soviet stage work since World War II, this two-part epic from Leningrad depicts Stalin's abuse of the rural millions. In Russian, with simultaneous translation through earphones, at San Diego's Old Globe...
...break an Azerbaijani blockade of Armenia. But after a dramatic all- night debate, legislators in the Supreme Soviet did what not so long ago was unthinkable. They rebuffed the strike proposal as "unconstitutional" and voted instead to put strict limits only on work stoppages that affect critical industries. Said Leningrad Deputy Anatoli Sobchak, a reformist: "We just spent a couple days in the school of democracy. And all the talk led somewhere...
Solovyev was embarrassed in March when he was rejected in an election for the new Congress of People's Deputies parliament even though he ran unopposed. He subsequently was removed as Leningrad party chief...
...commanders, "The German armed forces must be prepared to crush Soviet Russia in a quick campaign." The battle plan called for some 148 divisions -- more than 3 million men -- to attack in three main drives along a 1,000-mile front. One army group would strike northward, toward Leningrad; another army group from the Warsaw area would move north of the Pripet Marshes toward Moscow, which Hitler planned to level and leave forever uninhabitable; the southernmost group, from Rumania, would storm across the Ukraine toward Kiev and Stalingrad. "Operation Barbarossa" would smash Russia within six months...