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...Marcuse claims to be basically Marxist, he has also fallen under attack in the Soviet Union, where the wave of European student revolutions has met with anything but comradely applause. In a fiercely worded attack on "werewolves" who are "blasphemously using Marx's name," the Russian party organ Pravda recently accused Marcuse of trying to "introduce confusion in the ranks of the fighters against the old world." In fact, Pravda has a good deal more than confusion to worry about: today's young rebels against the Establishment include in their targets the bureaucratic structure of Communist states...
After his earlier visit to Moscow, Pravda had pointedly published Dubček's own report on the meeting: "The Soviet comrades expressed anxiety that the democratization in our country should not be exploited against socialism." And Dubček had no sooner departed than the Kremlin summoned the leaders of East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria to Moscow for a quick discussion about what to do about the Czechoslovaks. Their problems are real. Every fresh liberalization emanating from Prague adds to the discontent in other Communist nations, whose people would like the taste of a little...
...hand, the Soviet Union was pressuring him to slow down his reforms; Pravda spoke ominously of "subversive activities, antipopular forces, anti-Communist hysteria and anarchy" in Czechoslovakia. To soothe the Russians, Dubček, accompanied by Premier Oldrich Cernik, flew to Moscow for talks with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Even as they went, however, increasingly vocal liberals in Czechoslovakia were demanding nothing less than full democracy...
Readers of Pravda's reports know him well as a bitter critic of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. And soon they'll get the word from Dr. Benjamin Spock, 65, on a different subject-namely Baby and Child Care. The handbook that made the good doctor a fortune (20 million copies to date) is being published in Russian-which may bring more nyets than da, da, das once Russian mothers get a load of what he says. Spock advises light garments and laying babies on their stomachs, but Russian mothers swaddle infants tightly and set them on their...
Even more serious, in the long run, is Russia's shortage of facilities for leisure, such as bowling alleys and coffeehouses. Pravda somewhat lamely exhorted the growing number of bored workers, who tend to get on each other's nerves when thrown together for two days, to "mobilize their own inventiveness." So far, much of the leisure has been liquid. According to an article in Literaturnaya Gazeta, the first effect of the new work week was a 25% jump in Moscow vodka sales...