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...some of the Soviets had other ideas. One of them was the collective's chairman, Vitali Vladimirovich Stengach. A large, ruddy-faced man with a deceptively jovial manner, Stengach wields power on the kolkhoz, answering only to the local party authorities. Sitting in his huge office and guzzling a glass of the natural mineral water famous in the area, Stengach pours out his complaints. Says he: "We thought we would give him land to grow whatever he wanted. We wanted him to bring his own grain, tractors, herbicides and combines, so he could show us what can be done...
...left standing on the platform as the 1992 train pulls out of the station. East European countries are cozying up to the Community via bilateral trade and aid deals while Moscow watches with envious desire. "What is going on in Western Europe is a serious challenge for us," says Vitali Zhurkin, director of the Soviet Academy of Science's recently created Institute for Europe. "It is a positive process that shows us perestroika should be moving quicker. We too are behind...
...Vitali Ignatenko vividly remembers the day four years ago when the lives of Soviet journalists changed dramatically. Soon after taking office, Mikhail Gorbachev displayed his new style by delivering a speech live on Soviet television. "We realized that we had reached a new period," Ignatenko recalls. "It was the first step into the era of glasnost...
What also distinguishes this issue is the unprecedented involvement of Soviet journalists and writers. We asked Vitali Korotich, editor of Ogonyok, a leading light of glasnost, to write about the pitfalls of the new Soviet journalism. Mikhail Zhvanetsky, one the country's most popular and outspoken comedians, penned a monologue for Show Business. Yuri Shchekochikhin, who works for Literaturnaya Gazeta, co-wrote a piece examining perestroika in the provinces. The Books section features an excerpt from The Place of the Skull, the latest novel by one of Gorbachev's favorite authors, Chingiz Aitmatov. Andrei Sinyavsky, an emigre writer who spent...
...Today everything is gloomy and vacillating, a lot of people are hoping for a bloodletting, for atrocities and cruelties with all the 'ancient attributes': tyranny, the iron fist, a threatening master, army order. Already from every quarter appeals are heard to curtail Ogonyok editor Vitali Korotich; he irritates them more than anything else, and now the hosts of the 'loyal and prudent' are marching on him . . . No matter what those who are optimistic about perestroika say to you -- the situation is very grave, and it's a dreadful time to live, an enormous stock of malice has accumulated, oceans...