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...published in the U.S., Ten Years is a crisp, contemptuous and sometimes sardonic record of Russia's intellectual life in the decade since Nikita Khrushchev's temporary thaw allowed Alexander Solzhenitsyn to publish his novel about life in a Stalinist work camp. At first Khrushchev praised One Day, but in March 1963 he told a meeting of party leaders and intellectuals: "Take my word for it, this is a very dangerous theme. It's a kind of stew that will attract flies like a carcass; all sorts of bourgeois scum from abroad will come crawling all over...
...Chinese embassy in Moscow last week and proclaimed: "I am still optimistic." He was referring to the prospects of a break in the marathon dispute between the two Communist giants, but his hope must have been fed by the convivial atmosphere. In fact, signs of a Sino-Soviet thaw are about as scarce as palm trees in Peking or Moscow...
...Inconsistency. Only a few years ago, France's General de Gaulle was still breaking the ice for the West in Moscow. Now that the thaw is on, Europeans have performed a complete turnabout. Where they once damned the U.S. for risking war because of its cold war policy, they now go out of their way to pick apart Washington's motives for seeking a détente. Complaints about allowing Moscow to consolidate its hold on Eastern Europe are partly unrealistic: it has been evident for years that very little-short of war-can be done to dislodge...
...Indo-Pakistani war a year and a half ago, the countries of the subcontinent have been locked in a frosty stalemate of mutual recriminations. Caught in the diplomatic freeze are hundreds of thousands of refugees and prisoners of war. Pakistani President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto last week moved decisively to thaw relations...
Like so many Russian artists, Akhmatova learned to discern fate in the changing cold war weather. The Khrushchev thaw brought renewed official acceptance. Much of her work was republished in Russia. At 75, she traveled to Oxford for an honorary degree, to Italy for a prize and to Paris. where 53 years before Modigliani had sketched her portrait. But fame, as Akhmatova once wrote, "is a trap wherein there is neither happiness nor light." Two years later, when she was buried with full Orthodox rites, her graveside was crowded with the Soviet literary establishment...