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...military is studying similar ideas to prevent a catastrophe at headquarters from disabling the whole organization. This is, of course, not an entirely new idea: as Lenin plotted the Russian Revolution, he mastered the organization of independent cells. What is new is the tools that allow strategists to explore the possibilities open to a modern group organized in cells and called al-Qaeda...
...That may be as apt a metaphor as any for the unique odyssey of the collection of atoms that was Andrei Sakharov. The life of the dissident Russian physicist - acclaimed as both the creator of the Soviet H-bomb and the conscience of his country - spanned the years from Lenin to Gorbachev, the rise and fall of Soviet communism and the triumph of physics. Who but Sakharov could so personify such an age? Now, more than 12 years after his death at 68, the remarkable Russian is the subject of an authoritative, entertaining and compelling new book, Sakharov: A Biography...
...Sakhalin, Chekhov remarked, "I have seen Ceylon, and it is heaven, and now I have seen Sakhalin, and it is hell." Despite his stinging account, the people of Sakhalin have a lasting affection for the playwright and his introduction of the island to the world. His likeness vies with Lenin's on monuments throughout Sakhalin's capital, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk...
...Yuzhno is the most convenient starting point for an island tour. At the center of the main square, Lenin's statue towers over the city's forgotten Soviet monuments. Once beautiful mosaics honoring patriotic laborers crumble within his view, and statues dedicated to Soviet idealism lay toppled and strewn about the city like last year's toys...
...full of fascinating little finds, like a lovely white stone church with a dark green cupola, behind a wall on Bolshaya Ordynka (No. 38). It looks medieval but was built in 1912 by Alexei Shchusev, one of the most prolific architects of his time. He later designed Lenin's mausoleum and the hideous Moskva Hotel near Red Square, with its asymmetrical façade. Shchusev's career embodies the compromises that many intellectuals made during the Soviet period. And the church, now an icon-restoration workshop not officially open to the public, has its own tragic history. It was closely...