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Published in English at last is the unauthorized life story that got Russian Poet Evtushenko in so much trouble with the Kremlin bosses last winter. He comes out of it a highly subjective, idealistic Communist determined to revitalize the Revolution by healing Stalinist scars. That alone would have been enough to infuriate Moscow's angry old men. The poet is arrogantly vain and recklessly honest. "It is the bastards who are in danger, not I," he boasts. "What mattered were all those young eyes waiting expectantly" to hear the young Evtushenko read his flaming verses at mass meetings...
...really believes that Communism in Eastern Europe is about to wither and die, but there are striking signs that there is less of the Stalinist sort of repression and a chance for a freer life (see THE WORLD). "There is a long-term trend working here," says a State Department official, "one of loosening relations between the East European countries and the Soviet Union. They are growing less dependent on Moscow, more assertive. And if relations between the West and the Soviets improve, the satellite countries are going to be able to broaden their contacts with the West...
...people, to bring back the days when a man went to his job and did not know whether he would see his wife and children again?" Dropping his voice to a dramatic whisper, Khrushchev said that letters to him from all over the country expressed gratitude for ending the Stalinist terror. Then he added: "If Stalin had died ten years earlier, it would have been even better...
...elite echelon of the Soviet hier archy. Only four other Red leaders hold such a double position, and none is Khrushchev's likely successor. The four: Frol Kozlov, 54, who suffered a severe stroke in April; elderly Otto Kuusinen, 81; Senior Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, 60, compromised by a Stalinist past; and Khrushchev himself...
Last week Old Stalinist Antonin Novotny, President and first secretary of the Communist Party, bowed to mounting pressure from younger party leaders for further liberalization, announced the purge of two oldtime comrades-in-arms. Served up as scapegoats were Karol Bacilek, 66, first secretary of the Slovak wing of the nation's Communist Party and former Minister of Internal Security; and Bruno Kohler, 62, a party member since its founding in 1921 and No. 3 man on the Central Committee Secretariat...