Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience of 14,000 in a Moscow sports stadium; Doubleday, his American publisher, was happy to help re-create his experience in the U.S. and simultaneously promote his new book Stolen Apples. Advertising and producing his American appearances will cost nearly $100,000. So far the suave, sallow Siberian has performed for tens of thousands at the University of South Carolina, the Felt Forum in Madison Square Garden and arenas in Pittsburgh, Princeton and Chapel Hill. Yevtushenko asks triumphantly: "Who says Americans don't love poetry...
...image at home and abroad, Soviet authorities released Zhores Medvedev, at least partly in response to a flurry of protesting telegrams from foreign scientists. Thus the questions raised by Western psychiatrists may yet have some effect on what Dissident Author Andrei Amalrik, last reported in ill health in a Siberian prison camp, calls "the most disgusting thing that this regime does...
...limit strategic arms. The Soviets dearly want American high-technology goods, like computers and machine tools. Aside from natural gas and metals, however, they have little of compelling interest to offer American customers. Russian mining officials hope to entice American firms to help them exploit some of the huge Siberian copper deposits. But a joint venture-perhaps modeled after Fiat's partnership with Russia in the Togliatti auto plant-would require as much as $4 billion in American investment capital...
...files, and from background research assembled by Reporter-Researcher Susan Altchek, Contributing Editor Marguerite Johnson wrote the cover story. A veteran of TIME'S Art section, Marguerite shifted to World last winter after taking a five-month-long excursion around the globe by freighter, jetliner and Trans-Siberian Railroad. Upon her return, she was assigned to what seemed at the time a relatively tranquil part of the world: India. This is her second cover story since then on the tragic subcontinent. "The conflict," she says, "is so suffused with ancient religious, cultural and racial hatreds that it is difficult...
...first novel. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, depicts just a part of this endurance. Accused of being a spy after escaping from German occupied territory. Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is sentenced to ten years in a special Siberian labor camp for "class dangerous elements", like the camp Karaganda where Solzhenitsyn spent eight years. Solzhenitsyn considers only the day of one victim of Stalin's forced industrialization and intensification of totalitarian control. But it is estimated that about four million people died in the labor camps between 1927 and 1940, not by premeditated genocide but from the disease, fatigue...