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...news may be greeted with utmost reluctance. The 1984 view of things has been almost spiritually important to recent generations because the book cooperated perfectly with this age's picture of the future. Besides 1984, the two main Utopian-indeed, antiutopian-texts of the time have been Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. They stand in stark contrast to the visions of past ages: Plato's Republic, Augustine's City of God, Dante's Paradise, More's Utopia, Rousseau, Kant, Marx and the American Dream, which...
...cryptic "biographical" information on the dustcover, which sounds much like the drunken fiction inside. But if his background is unclear, Erofeev's literary heritage is not: his prose is in the great Russian grotesque tradition, hearkening back to Gogol by way of such earlier Soviet satirists as Bulgakov, Zamyatin, and Zoshchenko. There are also traces of authors as diverse as the Symbolist Andrei Bely (in some of the bizarre urban imagery). Rabelais, and J.D. Salinger (whose Catcher in the Rye was widely circulated in the Soviet Union...
...Italian charges prompted an emotional response last week from the Soviet Union. Leonid Zamyatin, spokesman for the Central Committee, angrily denied any Soviet or Bulgarian involvement in the papal shooting. He accused Western intelligence agencies and the Western press of conducting "a malicious campaign that has not a grain or iota of truth." Added Zamyatin: "If these insinuations continue, it will be seen as a deliberate campaign of aggravating world tension, an evil-minded campaign to discredit Bulgaria and the Soviet Union in the eyes of Catholics...
...wars knew instantly, after those figures came out, that the power equation had been subtly reshaped by technology and training. When speculation first appeared about the age and inferiority of Soviet equipment, the Kremlin uncharacteristically went off like a firecracker. There were angry rebuttals, flurries of military meetings. Leonid Zamyatin, the Kremlin's chief propagandist, went on Moscow television to wash away doubts with his rotund tones. General Yevgeni Yurasov, deputy head of Soviet air defense, gathered up his experts and headed to the Bekaa Valley to study the scorched debris...
...damage to Soviet-built weapons systems. In an unusual move, the official Soviet news agency TASS declared that all rumors that Soviet military equipment was inferior to the American-made arms in Israel's arsenal were "deliberately false" and a form of psychological warfare. Kremlin Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin went out of his way to explain in a television broadcast that "more than 100 Israeli tanks were knocked out and the Syrians didn't do it with their bare hands." Zamyatin blamed Syria's defeat not only on the speed of the Israeli attack but on Arab disunity...