Word: medvedev
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ANDROPOV by Zhores A. Medvedev; Norton; 227pages...
...Communist Party last November. Almost immediately, a gaggle of professional and amateur Kremlinologists scrambled to fill the information gap. Thus far all but one of their books have been either disappointingly speculative or based on stale data. The exception is this lively and provocative portrait by Zhores Medvedev, an exiled Soviet scientist living in London. Medvedev, 57, relied in part on the scholarly skills and resources of his twin brother, Roy Medvedev, who has remained in Moscow and is the author of Let History Judge (1972), a monumental but unofficial account of the Stalin era. Roy Medvedev was threatened with...
...Zhores Medvedev portrays Andropov as an austere, highly intelligent operator whose key weapon in his battle for Kremlin supremacy was the KGB he headed for 15 years. Andropov and his supporters relied on the intelligence agency to discredit the ailing Brezhnev, his family and network of associates. The Andropov aim was to pressure Brezhnev into resigning while besmirching potential rivals from the party chiefs camp...
...Muzzling Medvedev...
After reading about the Soviet Union's fear of our nuclear missiles, I turned to the article on the harassment of Soviet Historian Roy Medvedev [Jan. 31]. In the photograph of Medvedev, I saw an even greater Soviet fear: a brave, thoughtful man armed only with a pencil...