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...tomorrow, another prominent Russian emigre is in town: Lev Kopelev, who along with his wife, Raisa Orlova, was forced into exile earlier this year. The two writers, who apparently drew the ire of Soviet authorities because of their satirical writings, will discuss the "Contemporary Opposition Movement in the Soviet Union" in Room 2 in Coolidge Hall...
...been a literary highlight. It was 1979, and present at the plush Aragvi Restaurant in the Soviet capital was a pleiad of Russian writers and intellectuals, including Andrei Sakharov, the famed nuclear physicist, Dissident Author Anatoli Marchenko, Novelists Vasili Aksyonov and Vladimir Voinovich, and Critics Lev Kopelev and Raisa Orlova. But when the U.S. publishers got ready to give another such gala at the Moscow book fair this month, they knew the party would have to be smaller...
...outing, the KGB has seized Sakharov and dispatched him to the city of Gorky, where he has been held incommunicado for the past 20 months. Marchenko has just been sentenced to ten years of hard labor and five of exile for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." Aksyonov, Voinovich, Kopelev, Orlova and several others have been forced to live abroad. Even the erstwhile hosts have been made unwelcome. Four prominent American publishers were refused visas to the Soviet Union, and Random House Chairman Robert L. Bernstein was the target of an anti-Semitic attack in Literaturnaya Gazeta...
Lately, dissident literary figures have become targets of the crackdown. Two weeks ago, Lev Kopelev and his wife Raisa Orlova, both literary critics, left the U.S.S.R. for West Germany, following a long campaign of harassment and official vilification. Novelist Vladimir Voinovich complained last week that he could not obtain permission to emigrate, although a Soviet official had warned him that he might suffer an auto "accident" if he did not leave the country. One of the Soviet Union's most talented writers, Georgi Vladimov, has been under constant threat of arrest because he is the Moscow representative of Amnesty...
...pair of roller skates. And Producer Carroll's "Most Beautiful Girls in the World," so pretty that it seems a pity they have to work, keep very little of themselves secret. Culminating the fan number ("Did you ever see such fans!" leers Comedian House), a Miss Gay Orlova arises attired in just barely enough (6 sq. in. of cellophane) to keep the police from stopping the performance...
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