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Another prominent Soviet intellectual last week joined the growing debate on East-West détente. In a 7,000-word article circulated in Moscow and published in West Germany's weekly Die Zeit, Historian Roy Medvedev, 48, best known for his exhaustive exposé of the Stalinist purges (Let History Judge), took issue with several fellow dissidents who believe that Western pressures can lead to internal reforms. Arguing that change in the Soviet system can come only from above, Medvedev expressed fears that demands from the West are more likely to "make more difficult the process of democratization...
...here is politics, specifically left-wing popular-front politics in the 1940s. The script by Playwright Arthur Laurents (Time of the Cuckoo) posits an improbable, if not preposterous relationship between a WASP jock-frat man (Robert Redford), who is, on the side, an incredibly sensitive writer, and a Jewish Stalinist campus radical (Barbra Streisand), who is, on the side, a novice earth mother. A great deal of pushing and hauling gets them from college to marriage to Hollywood in time for the anti-Red witch hunts. The purpose, one imagines, was to have the apolitical Redford's screenwriting career...
...family. In another statement issued to Western newsmen last week, he disclosed that a Leningrad woman had hanged herself after five days of interrogation by the KGB had forced her to reveal the whereabouts of a hidden Solzhenitsyn manuscript. Police seizure of this unpublished work-a documentary record of Stalinist concentration camps-has greatly alarmed the author because 200 of the prisoners he interviewed for the book are still alive. They are now subject to reprisal, as is Solzhenitsyn...
...that they are eager to import foreign technology, but are adamant in rejecting the 'freer flow' of ideas proposed by Western ESC nations. The Soviets have revealed that dissent is a live issue at home, contradicted their claim that the dissenters are few and unimportant, reverted to Stalinist methods of marshaling opinion, and openly challenged the West as to how firmly it is prepared to stand by its humanist beliefs. Soviet suppression of dissenting opinion, in short, has become as much of a challenge to the West as the recent Soviet MIRV (multiple targetable re-entry vehicles) tests...
...outward simplicity was his great drive and cunning. Throughout the twists and turns of Communist Party history, he proved the ruthless loyalty that made him the trusted instrument of the Soviets. During the Spanish Civil War he went to Spain and helped liquidate the Communists who deviated from the Stalinist line. During the 1930s Ulbricht was suspected of fingering German Communists for Stalin's bloody purges. He fought in the Battle of Stalingrad in his own way-by directing propaganda appeals to undermine the morale of the German soldiers. Sentimentality was foreign to him. Though he had a brother...