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After years of being an administrator in the Soviet government, Vessenski started his career in journalism as a special correspondent in South America for Komsommorsky Pravda, the newspaper of the Soviet youth organization. Vessenski says Soviet officials were surprisingly liberal in letting his reports through without much censorship...
Furst's perfect-pitch re-creation begins with a fatally flawed protagonist: Andre Szara, 40, Pravda reporter in Europe and occasional Soviet spy, whose life goals have been reduced to a desire to outlast Stalin's purges. As the novel opens in 1937, Szara, a Russified Polish Jew, is caught in the midst of a blood feud in the Soviet secret services between his NKVD friends, mostly Jewish intellectuals, and Stalin's Georgian thugs. The fear that dominates Szara's nomadic life is palpable: a typically chilling passage is about his return to Russia aboard a Soviet freighter with...
...enforced, the President took police powers away from the city council and turned them over to the national Interior Ministry, which mustered a virtual army of trucks, water cannons and troops in riot gear. Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov spoke of "looming threats," and Anatoli Karpychev, deputy editor of Pravda, the party daily, charged that radicals were planning a coup. Declared he: "Preparations for the final storming of the Kremlin have already begun...
...taken his political lumps and recovered from them. He has perceptibly matured from the brash, almost bullying Moscow party boss of 1987, who boasted that he fired 40% of the party hacks who ran the city. Says Mikhail Poltaranin, a Yeltsin adviser who edited the pro-Yeltsin Moskovskaya Pravda in 1987: "When he was being attacked, he had to defend himself, and it was very unnerving. He made mistakes. Nowadays he's more balanced, calmer, more sure of himself...
...being voiced in the U.S.S.R., and the approach of a nationwide referendum on March 17 has done nothing to ease them. President Mikhail Gorbachev is asking citizens to vote yes or no on preserving the union; the question is unsubtly worded virtually to demand a yes reply. A Pravda editorial posed the choice as "Union or Chaos...