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...expect from him what he expects from himself--or at least, what the bosses of the Union of Soviet Writers back across the Berlin Wall (which in another poem, pierces through him) apparently expect of their chief literary export item, who came into world prominence during the post-Stalin thaw. Yevtushenko recited his poems by memory, but this poem, being but a few hours off his poem pad, he read. There was about it the quality of improvisation, complete with jazzy tone changes: bombs to balalaikas. Here was Yevtusheno the opportunist at work. At least...
...year late. Scheduled for 1971, the show was abruptly canceled by Moscow after an outburst of anti-Soviet demonstrations, chiefly by the over-activists of the Jewish Defense League. But the thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations caused by President Nixon's announcement of a May summit conference in Moscow changed Soviet minds, and the show was on again. It was accompanied by the U.S.S.R. Minister of Culture, Ekaterina Furtseva, who declared that "in our opinion we haven't come near to exhausting our potentials for cultural exchange...
...history and thereby keep the study of "that prolonged disease known as 'the cult of personality' " from being monopolized by bourgeois historians and anti-Communist propagandists. "It is Communists," he writes, "who should be the strictest judges of their own history." He began his work in the thaw that followed Stalin's death. When he was finished twelve years later, the authorities had once again grown defensive. It was only after the Soviet Party Central Committee refused to permit its publication in the U.S.S.R. that Medvedev allowed his manuscript to reach an American publisher...
...emphasized the President's desire to have the American prisoners freed. By releasing two of the five Americans who are known to be languishing in Chinese cells, Peking demonstrated that in one case, at least, it is willing to go two-fifths of the way toward a thaw with...
...return. In an excursion arranged months before Stans' mis sion last week, 90 U.S. executives were in Moscow conferring with Soviet trade officials and industrial managers. Said William J. Barton, vice president of Business International, the research firm that sponsored the Moscow expedition: "There's a real thaw-you can almost hear the ice cracking...