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Soviet Poet Yuri Maximovich Isakovsky has just made love to his secretary, who is almost certainly the office spy. In the warm indolence that follows, the lady praises one of his verses. She has gleaned far more from it, she says, than she ever learned from a course in Russian literature...
...first place. And if I didn't write that story (and I'm not saying that I didn't), you shouldn't be congratulating me in a public place with dozens of people whom we don't even know scurrying past listening." Yuri Maximovich's suspicion is well founded. He is dangerous to the state, first because he is a citizen not yet in prison, second because he is a poet, and third because...
...been written by a Soviet. For the satire of the left-wing academic community lacks teeth, and too many plot turns seem to occur in the last third of the novel, sim ply because something has to happen. One touch, however, indicates the book's essential virtue. Yuri Maximovich is trying to decide whether to defect. To stall for time, he must sell out and read the KGB's poem. He does so. But first, more artist than survivor, he takes the wretched thing apart and sharpens its images. It is not clear whether he understands that...
Died. Georgy Maximovich Pushkin. 54. Russian diplomat currently ranked as a deputy foreign minister, whose list of achievements includes the efficient Communization of Hungary (as ambassador from 1945 to 1949) and East Germany (as head of the Soviet Diplomatic Mission from 1949 to 1952 and ambassador from 1954 to 1958); of a heart attack; in Moscow...
...Russia and most of the countries of Europe, he was many aliases-Ludwig Nietz, Maxim Harrison, David Mordecai, Felix. To Lenin, Stalin and the other Old Bolsheviks, he was Papasha (papa dear), one of the trusted inner circle. The rest of the world got to know him as Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. For two confusing decades, he was one of Russia's two faces -the false...