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...Mikhail Gorbachev already planning a comeback? The former Soviet leader certainly gave that impression when he turned up at Moscow's swank Oktyabr Hotel for a farewell party the day after his resignation. Looking tired but relaxed, Gorbachev mingled with former aides and Moscow journalists, signing autographs, exchanging lemon vodka toasts and cracking jokes. "My mother has been telling me for a long time to give it all up and come home," he quipped. But anyone who believes the ex-President is going to slip quietly away to a dacha to write his memoirs or putter about in the garden...
...published Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a book about life in a Stalinist prison camp. Tvardovsky ran a notice in 1966 saying that the first part of Children of the Arbat would appear in 1967. It never did. In 1978 another monthly, Oktyabr, included Children of the Arbat in a list of books to be serialized in 1979. But again the year passed with neither publication nor explanation. The version that begins running this week in Druzhba Narodov, a publication of the Soviet Writers Union, is 600 pages long and will appear...
...Komsomolskaya Pravda (Communist Youth's Truth) one B. Dairedzhiev last week blasted the magazine Oktyabr (October) for "bourgeois sentimentality." He particularly singled out a story called "Comrade Anna," about a Soviet family whose happiness was blighted when the father fell in love with another woman...
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