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...delegation of 12 Harvard students and three faculty advisors will travel to Leningrad this March as part of a reciprocal exchange program sponsored by the student council of the Center for International Affairs (CFIA...
...students will spend two weeks at Leningrad State University discussing a variety of issues, including the political nature of the two countries, with students at the Soviet school. In November, a group of Soviets from Leningrad will travel to Harvard as part of the exchange, which members of the CFIA student council said they hope will become an annual event...
Adrift in his native city of Leningrad in 1969, the young poet had good reason to feel depressed. He had spent 18 months laboring on a state farm in the Arctic, convicted by a Soviet court of being a "social parasite." Released but still convinced that his mission on earth was to write rather than surrender his skills to the dictates of the state, he faced bleak prospects: the official campaign to discredit him had taken on undertones of anti- Semitism, and his work was being subjected to the annihilating silence of suppression. So he composed...
Aksyonov knew from clouds. His father, a Communist Party official, and his mother, a distinguished historian, spent nearly two decades in labor camps and Siberian exile during the Stalin years. He was raised in provincial Kazan by an aunt, completed medical school in Leningrad and became a popular though officially censured novelist. The Burn, his fictional account of Stalin-era Siberia, was published abroad in 1980. For that offense he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship while traveling in the U.S. and found himself stranded there...
Gorbachev has also encouraged economic innovation in agriculture and the woefully inadequate service sector. In Moscow and Leningrad, collective farms are beginning to sell produce through their own outlets as well as through the state stores. A parallel development is the appearance of private-enterprise restaurants set up in competition with state-owned eateries (see box). Another flirtation with free enterprise is the new "individual-labor" law that took effect last May. It legalizes a kind of small-scale service business that may be run by an individual or family. Owners of private automobiles, for example, are now allowed...