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...Soviet Union ten years ago, but lost that post to fellow Emigré Mikhail Baryshnikov. Her new venture not only gives her control over a company but allows her to choose roles that she might otherwise not get. She also wants to pass on the training she received at Leningrad's fabled Kirov school to American dancers. The inexperience of her corps was intentional: "I just have a strong desire to build these girls into very interesting artists." First-night jitters not withstanding, questions about the company's permanence are staggeringly premature. So far, Makarova and Company...
...immigrants usually like Boston. It is somehow like the cities, primarily Moscow and Leningrad, from which the immigrants come. Says Ivry, "Boston is also a very popular place, because the immigrants perceive it as an intellectual city." This perception, grounded in hazy information not readily available in the U S S R, is particularly attractive to those who settle in Boston, because between 60 and 70 per cent of them have professional skills...
What at first seems "like another planet, another world, a place where everything is completely different," gradually becomes comfortingly familiar. Before this happens, however, immigrants must overcome a natural tendency to speak only Russian, especially at home. David Taube, who arrived from Leningrad with his family last December, recognizes that the "lack of language is an interruption of cultural development. Because of this, immigrants live in a very closed environment, and often it is very difficult to overcome this circle. Some people don't want to widen the circle...
Once the decisions are made and American life is adjusted to, most immigrants can find time to laugh about their early experiences. Maria Rubinova, who made the trip from Leningrad to Ithaca, N.Y., about six years ago, recalls a typical frustration. It happened when she had been in the country for only a few weeks and spoke almost no English. While searching in vain for the post office, she finally got up enough courage to ask directions...
Undeterred, the women extended their underground activities. An organization was formed in Leningrad last March with 20 active members and several hundred supporters. They produced three more issues of their underground magazine, renaming it Maria. Early on, Maria made the intriguing ideological argument that Marxism was dead and that the only viable alternative was feminism. It went on to say that women should persuade men to burn their draft orders rather than serve in Afghanistan-a crime that would cost the draft resisters long terms in prison. The second issue declared the group's solidarity with Afghan women fighting...