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...assembled, with loving, exhausting labor, between 1982 and 1993. He became a translator and champion of Ukrainian writing. He enlisted me sometimes in college to help him polish English versions of such beloved writers as Vasyl Stefanyk. He had taught me about the great Ukrainian national poet, Taras Shevchenko. (He also taught me some overly colorful Ukrainian phrases that I was stupid enough to repeat in mixed Ukrainian company, to his embarrassment and mine...
DIED. ARKADY SHEVCHENKO, 67, Soviet apparatchik turned spook who boldly defected to the U.S. in 1978, when he was Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, and later told all about the Kremlin in the best-selling memoir Breaking with Moscow; of an apparent heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. One of Shevchenko's CIA debriefers was agent Aldrich Ames, the Soviet mole who later sold secrets to Moscow...
...TIME neglected the voices of Moscow's critics. In February 1985 we published excerpts from the memoirs of Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko, former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations. Late last year we carried selections from Elena Bonner's account of life with her husband Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov during their exile in Gorky...
This week's project was directed, as were TIME's previous excerpts from books by Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Alexander Haig, Theodore H. White and Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko, by Executive Editor Ronald Kriss. "Before we choose a book to excerpt," says Kriss, "we always ask: Does it enlarge our knowledge of history; does it give us new insight into the way our world works?" Bonner's book combines both deeply personal and broadly historical elements. Says Kriss: "It is a story of two people living in terrible isolation, but also waging a heroic fight against a vast and monolithic...
...courses offered are rigorous, ranging from "Religious Issues in Ukrainian History to 1700" to one on Ukrainian literature, focusing on such late 19th century authors as Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko and Lesya Ukrainka...