Word: ukrainian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. The Ukrainian writer was railroaded into an insane asylum in 1962 when he published The Bluebottle, a vigorous attack on Soviet tyranny. Not surprisingly, he found that the other patients' only lunacy was to criticize Khrushchev's Russia, and now he voices the plight of his fellow inmates...
...there is ever another Russian rev olution, Valeriy Tarsis may be remembered as its Tom Paine. In 1960, after years of private opposition to the Communist regime, the 53-year-old Ukrainian wrote a novel, The Bluebottle, that contained an angry attack on the Soviet tyranny and a vigorous defense of human liberty; smuggled out of Russia, it was published in England late in 1962. The Kremlin reacted swiftly. On the assumption, officially expressed by Khrushchev, that anyone who dislikes life in the Soviet Union must be a "lu natic," Author Tarsis was committed to a mental hospital...
Died. Boris Mikhailovich Artzybasheff, 66, one of the art world's most engaging innovators and TIME cover artist (see Publisher's Letter); of a heart attack; in Lyme, Conn. Born in Czarist Russia, the son of a distinguished novelist-playwright, he fought with the Ukrainian army against the Communists in the civil war that followed the 1917 Revolution, emigrated in 1919 to the U.S. with only 14? in Turkish coins, worked as an engraver and house painter before achieving recognition for his meticulous drawings of humanized machines and mechanized humans. He produced four one-man exhibits in Paris...
Five months ago Ukrainian coal mine No. 9 near Lvov was cut loose from the tentacles of Soviet planning and made a test case. The test was the first application to heavy industry in Russia of Professor Evsei Liberman's Western-style theories of profit guidelines and greater autonomy for factory managers-theories that are already proving their superiority over Marxist regimentation in the Soviet consumer-goods sector (TIME cover...
...Ukrainian Contribution. Russia's growing community of pragmatic, highly professional economists and engineers understands very clearly what has happened, and is sure that it has the cure-even if much of it has to be borrowed from the capitalists. Among the foremost is Kharkov Economics Professor Evsei Liberman, 67, whose quizzical smile masks an imperious and demanding intelligence, and who as much as any other Russian is credited by the West with initiating Russia's great debate. A stocky Ukrainian with a quick and witty command of English, Liberman is typical of Russia's new breed that...