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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...
...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...
Intellectuals are also beginning to feel new pressures. In a wave of mass meetings, artists and writers have been warned of ideological "deviations" and reminded that their art must "help the party." Some have been singled out for more specialized treatment. Iconoclastic Historian Roy Medvedev has been officially told to "cease hostile activities" against the Soviet system. Nonconformist Writer Georgi Vladimov was threatened with criminal prosecution by KGB agents...