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Much the same situation dignifies Maximov's novel, A Man Survives (Grove). Seryosha, his young hero, of ten spouts familiar teen-age protests. "I hate the whole world," he shouts at one point. "I hate everybody who has the right to bang his fist on the table, to give marks." But the reader is mistaken who thinks he is listening in on James Dean complaining to Dad because he can't have the family car for a double date. Seryosha's father has been taken away by the NKVD, and the boy has encountered in Joseph Stalin...
With flashbacks, brief jagged confrontations, and dirty language - all of them daring deviations from stodgy stylistic norms in Stalin's time - Maximov tells how the rebellious Seryosha lives as an outlaw on the seamy side of the Soviet establishment, first stealing vegetables to sell on the black market, then working for a smuggler plying the border trade back and forth from Turkey. Eventually he is drafted to fight in World...
Sovereignty is not a word often used in connection with a Soviet citizen. But First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev used it scornfully last week to describe the action of "Comrade Maximov," chairman of the Zhdanov Coke-Chemical works, who had built an 8½-ft.-high slag-block wall 3,000 ft. long (cost: $50,000) to "defend his sovereignty" against the rival Azvostal factory. Although Russia's vast socialized industry works for one boss-the State-competition between ministries, divisions and plant managements is as intense and as predatory as anything to be found in the worst Marxist...
...Comrade Maximov was a horrible example in Khrushchev's cautious but crucial struggle with the technocrat commissars, who have been demanding less interference from boards of bureaucratic directors in Moscow, more autonomy in their plants and more control over the men under them, i.e., more freedom, which in Russia can only mean less bother with the party hacks. Recently Khrushchev produced a much publicized scheme for the decentralization of Soviet industry that seemed to answer the demands of the technocrat commissars (TIME, April...
...offset this get-together, Red satellite Albania last week entertained Russia's Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, who guided his 12,000-ton cruiser Maximov and two destroyers through the Dardanelles and up the Adriatic, in full sight of Tito's ship...