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...jobs, sent them to forced-labor camps, and confined them to prison mental institutions. Their most recent method appears to be a kind of involuntary exile: they allow a dissenter to travel abroad and then snatch away his passport. Last week, after eight months of research in Britain, Zhores Medvedev, a geneticist and gerontologist of international reputation, was called to the Soviet embassy in London where his passport was revoked and he was told that he was no longer a Soviet citizen...
...questions are asked by Russian Geneticist Zhores Medvedev, a leading Soviet intellectual and close friend of the man who for years has had to bear the weight of official Soviet censorship -Alexander Solzhenitsyn. That such questions are being put forward by a Soviet citizen who has been given official permission to live in London for a year -and presumably could be "recalled" home for simply asking them-is significant enough. Even more important, they have been raised in the first biography by a Russian of the country's greatest living novelist...
...Years After One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, which will be initially published (in Russian) by Macmillan of London this week, is described by Medvedev as a Festschrift (German for a written homage). In part, it is a vivid account of an artist who has struggled to write and publish under extraordinarily hazardous conditions. Ten Years is also a detailed analysis of Soviet cultural life from Nikita Khrushchev's brief era of liberalization in 1962 (when One Day was published in the Soviet Union) down through the repressive climate of the present...
Alexander Tvardovsky, one of Russia's best-known poets, had published One Day while editor of Novy Mir. He soon fell into disgrace and was forced to leave the magazine. At his funeral in 1971, writes Medvedev, no friends were allowed to give eulogies. The ceremonies were strictly supervised by party functionaries who made no mention of Tvardovsky's role in the publication of Russia's great postwar novel...
...Medvedev singles out a number of people who have made notable efforts to discredit Solzhenitsyn. For instance, Culture Minister Yekaterina Furtseva helped prevent Solzhenitsyn from receiving the 1964 Lenin Prize for Literature, one of the Soviet Union's most prestigious awards. Medvedev also attacks Victor Louis, a roaming Soviet correspondent noted for providing leaks on Soviet policy shifts to the Western press. The author describes him as a "special agent of the KGB." Louis, claims Medvedev, planted a stolen copy of Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward with the Russian emigre publication Posev, which is based in West Germany...