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Implementing the program is a not a simple task, according to project manager Vsevolod Petriv. The "sheer volume" of the material makes entering the data a time-consuming and expensive part of the project...
...Vsevolod Marinov of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences organized the most extensive Soviet poll ever conducted for a U.S. magazine. Since telephone surveys are relatively new in the Soviet Union, respondents were given a number to call to verify that those asking the questions were legitimate pollsters. "We received only about a dozen call-backs," says Marinov. "Some of them assumed we were officials who could help them with their problems. One woman even wanted her leaking radiator fixed...
...historian offers an unexampled picture of some 55 years of Soviet musical life. His tender and witty evocation of his teacher Alexander Glazunov constitutes one of the most affecting portraits of a composer in the literature of music. Shostakovich muses over the fates of his close friends, the director Vsevolod Meyerhold, the Red Army Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and others more obscure: composers, an organist, a musicologist. All died in the Gulag. "When I started going over the life stories of my friends and acquaintances," he told Volkov, "all I saw was corpses, mountains of corpses...
...Moscow-based Western correspondents were cautioned about their reporting of Soviet dissent and the raging controversy over Solzhenitsyn's new book, The Gulag Archipelago, an exhaustive study of the Soviet system of terror under Lenin and Stalin. In an article in the Literary Gazette, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Vsevolod Sofinsky warned that foreign correspondents would "create difficulties for themselves" by seeking what Sofinsky called "nonexistent facts and information" about dissenters like Solzhenitsyn. Similar admonitions in the past have often led to police harassment and expulsion of newsmen from the country...
...Brad Park) even though he scored two goals and two assists. Yet the slight was mild compared with the puerile and unsportsmanlike behavior that marked much of the series. Soviet team officials demanded that Canadian Coach Harry Sinden order Defenseman Gary Bergman to stop skating past baronial Russian Coach Vsevolod Bobrov during games, on the ground that Bergman was making menacing gestures and lewd comments. In turn, Sinden complained about a Russian player making "crazy-in-the-head gestures" at Assistant Canadian Coach John Ferguson. When a West German referee handed out a two-minute interference penalty to Minnesota...