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...future by drawing upon Russia's pre-revolutionary past. Specifically, the book reaches back to a famous collection of articles called Vekhi (Landmarks) published a few years after Russia's abortive 1905 revolution. Among the contributors to Vekhi were Christian Philosopher Nikolai Berdyayev and Liberal Politician Pyotr Struve. Vekhi promoted a return to Russia's traditional spiritual values rather than an uncritical acceptance of Western materialism. "The inner life of the individual," the authors argued, is vastly more important than any social system...
Symbolic Gestures. The Soviet leaders are nevertheless sensitive to the fact that American criticism of Russian repression, led by Senator Henry Jackson (see box), is a threat to détente. In what can only be construed as a symbolic gesture to mollify U.S. opinion, they released Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, 67, who had been placed in a psychiatric clinic for political crimes five years ago. At the same time, Benjamin Levich, a Jew and a leading Soviet chemist, was told that next year he would receive his long-sought permission to emigrate to Israel. His two sons, both...
...after the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb, there was speculation in the Western press that famed Nuclear Scientist Pyotr Kapitsa had played a crucial role in the bomb's development. But Kapitsa, according to Khrushchev, refused to get involved in military research. Here is Khrushchev's version of their relationship...
...they beat me, I will admit anything," Soviet Historian Pyotr Yakir told a journalist before he was arrested last year. "I know this from my former experience in the camps. But you'll know it won't be the real me speaking...
...Historian Pyotr Yakir and Economist Viktor Krasin went on trial in Moscow last week charged with subversion. No foreign observers were allowed in the courtroom. Tass reported that both men had freely confessed-in a manner that sounded reminiscent of Stalin's farcical purge trials of the '30s -to various acts against the state. In what seemed an attempt by the authorities to discredit Solzhenitsyn, their testimony supposedly described him as a sympathetic reader of a banned underground newspaper...