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...Soviet Union is increasingly opening its ears to revisionist history about the Stalinist regime, Soviet author Anatoly Rybakov told a crowd of 200 people at the Kennedy School Forum last night...
...takes them to the jagged, black-and-white monument to Nikita Khrushchev or the haunting marble bust of Stalin's second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva (the dictator is buried beside the Kremlin Wall). Since Gorbachev urged historians to fill in the "blank spaces" of the past, the pain of the Stalinist years is no longer a taboo topic...
...cultural domain. During the past year more than a dozen previously banned movies have been screened before fascinated audiences. On the stage, plays like Mikhail Shatrov's Dictatorship of Conscience examine past failures of Communism. Anatoli Rybakov's Children of the Arbat, a novel that chronicles the murderous Stalinist purges of the 1930s, appeared in a literary journal after going unpublished for two decades. Last month a group of ex-political prisoners and dissident writers applied for permission to publish their own magazine, aptly titled Glasnost. The government has so far given no official answer, but the first issue...
...then the country was in the midst of the cultural thaw of Khrushchev's destalinization, a time of extraordinary ferment in the arts. Rybakov wrote an anti-Stalinist novel, Summer in Sosnyak, about a girl whose parents were killed in the 1937 purges. It was relatively mild politically and appeared in Novy Mir but was later suppressed until the publication of Rybakov's collected works in 1982. In 1964 he started Children of the Arbat, but by that time the thaw was over and the long twilight of the Brezhnev era was setting in. "Tvardovsky, the courageous Novy Mir editor...
...clear why some people would voice powerful objections. The book's characters represent a cross section of Soviet society of the Stalinist era. Those who lived through it can see themselves in the story, and the portrait is not always pretty. "There is much that will be appearing for the first time," Rybakov said. "Many people of my generation will recognize themselves. This is an important step politically...