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Stern said that in the past few years all Jewish institutions and organizations have been closed down and Jewish activists arrested. Soviet officials recently closed the Cultural Seminar in Leningrad, which dealt which the period of the Second Temple and related issues, because of its "anti-Soviet" studies, he added...
...opera electrified its first audiences in both Russia and the West with its sexual frankness. One early critic, referring to the lascivious trombone slides that accompany the furious lovemaking of Katerina and Sergei in Act I, called the music "pornophony." But the opera proved popular, with 83 performances in Leningrad and 97 in Moscow before it offended the delicate sensibilities of the Soviet commissars, who denounced it in Pravda as "Muddle Instead of Music." Shostakovich, the only important 20th century Russian composer who worked entirely under the Soviet system (Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky eventually settled in America, and Prokofiev spent many...
...deceased politician to forget that she existed. The plot thickens-curdles, really-with hints of Chappaquiddick and Nixonian plumbers, with genuflections to Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, with narrative implausibilities and internal contradictions and enough red herrings to stock a Leningrad fish market...
...except Arkady and a beautiful, damaged actress named Irina. Her sexual connection with Osborne is extended to include the I detective, an isosceles triangle with points ranging from the Kremlin to Leningrad to an obscure island named Staten in the strange and hazardous city of New S York. In the process, Smith provides a Dostoyevskian cast of | characters: William Kirwill, a renegade Catholic policeman visiting Moscow to find the murderer of his radical brother; Andreev, a dwarf who can sculpt personalities out of carrion; Zoya, the gymnast, Arkady's humorless wife who parrots jawbreaking propaganda ("So it is shown...
Ethan Burger '81 and Frederick Schneider '82 are Slavic Studies concentrators who returned in January from a semester at Leningrad State University...