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...minute discussion was conducted under large portraits of Lenin and Khrushchev in a heavily glided rococo room that one Harvard visitor suggested would have been more appropriate as a Czarist embassy...
...Bulgaria, 200 African university students on Communist scholarships marched down Sofia's Lenin Boulevard toward the office of Premier Todor Zhivkov to protest government restrictions. Instead of sympathy, they were met by 600 Bulgarian militiamen, who flailed the Africans with clubs and hauled them off to jail. All the students had asked for was permission to maintain an all-Africa Student Union...
With sweep and color, the book tells how Lenin turned from a peaceful student into a fiery revolutionist after the czarist police killed his brother. In detail, the authors unfold the subsequent chain of tragedies: Lenin's minority-party power grab in 1917, Stalin's further perversion of Marxist ideals. Russia's nationalistic heroism in World War II and its postwar imperialism, the chilling struggle for Kremlin power after Stalin's death, and the sharp differences among Communist countries. Adlai Stevenson praises the book for its "new insights" and "fresh, factual appraisal...
About a month ago, soon after Nikita Khrushchev touched off a general crackdown on modern art (TIME, Dec. 14), several hundred Soviet artists and writers were abruptly summoned to the modern, glass-walled reception palace at Lenin Hills, on the outskirts of Moscow. Khrushchev himself, it seemed, wanted to hear what poets and painters thought of the party line on avant-garde art. The argument raged for five hours, far into the night, and included several remarkably frank exchanges with the Soviet ruler...
Evtushenko's display of courage did not last long. Two weeks after the Lenin Hills meeting, the party's ideological boss, Leonid Ilyichev, called in the poet and a number of other young intellectuals for an attitude talk. Ilyichev was especially angry over Evtushenko's poem Babi Yar, which condemned Soviet anti-Semitism and which had just been enthusiastically received in a new symphonic setting by Composer Dmitry Shostakovich. Cultural commissars quickly canceled further performances of the symphony. As for the poem, said Ilyichev, it should be changed to include an attack on West Germany. After...