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...Georgi Vladimov, 49, is another exceptionally talented writer who has been cut down in mid-career and who is being hounded by the KGB. One reason for the persecution is his celebrated novella, Faithful Ruslan, which has circulated all over the country in samizdat; it was published in the U.S. last year by Simon & Schuster. Ruslan tells of a concentration-camp dog, pitilessly trained to guard convicts, that becomes a stray when most of the Stalinist camps are closed down in 1956. Ruslan, and other dogs of his kind, keep a vigil at the local railway station, hoping...
...Vladimov's allegory of contemporary Soviet society, which was inspired by an actual event, hardly needs to be explained to Soviet readers. As a fable of literary life, it signifies that the official hounds schooled under Stalin are likely to keep biting at the heels of insubordinate writers in the Soviet Union for a long time to come...