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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over their children's classrooms. Boring textbooks that only timidly touched upon the terrors of Stalin have been withdrawn. Until new textbooks become available, articles from newspapers, enlivened by the candor of glasnost, serve as the main basis for history lessons. Once banned 20th century classics, such as Andrei Platonov's Juvenile Sea, have found their way into classrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Restructuring the 3 R's | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...PLATONOV. Rumanian director Liviu Ciulei blends farce and great sadness in Chekhov's early drama, at Harvard's American Repertory Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jan. 16, 1989 | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...PLATONOV. Romanian director Liviu Ciulei blends farce and great sadness in Chekhov's early drama, at Harvard's American Repertory Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jan. 9, 1989 | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...illustrated weekly Ogonyok, which formerly was tedious fodder for waiting-room tables, is now headed by an energetic managing editor who has transformed it into a sharply contentious publication. Znamya magazine has just published Andrei Platonov's Juvenile Sea, which had been sitting in the archives for 52 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Poet's View of Glasnost | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...candor. From the moment he capers onto the stage, he seems infinitely more alive than everyone around him. No matter how thwarted or downcast, he never loses his vision of life as adventure rather than mere existence. But as his admirers gradually realize, the very boyish traits that make Platonov so appealing also render him irresponsible: unlike the safe and predictable dullards around him, he has simply never grown up. In the funniest yet most poignant scene, he feverishly debates whether to stay faithful to his wife (Kate Burton) or sneak off to join a handsome widow who has urged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bawdy Laughter, Beckoning Doom Wild Honey | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

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