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Like Rybakov himself, Sasha Pankratov, the student hero of Arbat, lived in the capital's bohemian Arbat district during the '30s. Also like Rybakov, he was arrested on a trumped-up infraction and sentenced to three years in Siberian villages. These are not the feared Gulag but the world of administrative exiles living on odd jobs and packages from home. Sasha becomes an itinerant farmhand and because of his good looks has little trouble keeping warm on cold nights...
Kania seemingly has no off-season. "I train three or four hours every day in summer," she explains, "five or six hours other times. Sometimes I hate it." What spare hours she has are spent with her second husband Rudolf Kania, a school sports instructor, and their son Sasha, born a year after Sarajevo. Shy and soft-spoken, Kania is one of the best-liked athletes on the winter circuit. Competitors will not be trailing in her wake much longer. Kania has already announced her retirement at the end of the season. Future plans? Another child, for sure, and eventually...
...then Lonetree, a devotee of spy novels who had already been transferred from Moscow to Vienna, had voluntarily admitted to having had liaisons with a Soviet woman and providing relatively low-level documents from the Vienna embassy -- but not the Moscow embassy -- to a KGB agent nicknamed "Uncle Sasha." Only under persistent and prolonged NIS questioning did Lonetree name Bracy, asserting that when the two of them were in Moscow they had let Soviet agents roam the embassy's secure areas. On the strength of Lonetree's statement, Bracy was arrested...
Despite such difficulties, some enterprising Soviets are building sizable illegal businesses with the law's unintended help. During the trial period, a 32-year-old lawyer named Sasha expanded his modest, one-man costume-jewelry business. Since selling in public is no longer illegal, he arranged for three friends to go to work for him. They took over sales, while Sasha commissioned two part-time jewelers to manufacture the product. That amounted to the illegal hiring of workers, but the profits kept everybody happy...
...enterprise has been an overnight hit. The makers of the jewelry receive two rubles ($3), and the sellers get 1.50 rubles ($2.25) for each item that sells for five rubles ($7.50). That leaves 1.50 rubles for Sasha as the "organizer." (Marx called Sasha's profit the "surplus value" and considered it to be the essence of capitalist exploitation.) Sasha says that in an average month he earns about 800 rubles ($1,200), far more than his 150- ruble ($225) monthly salary as a lawyer. "I am a biznesmen," he says with a grin, using a word Russian has borrowed from...