[PEN-L:1314] Re: A progressive coup?

[Gregory Schwartz <grishas@xxxxxxxx>]

Hers is a response typical of the spineless Russian intelligentsia. A good film
illustrating this spinelessness is Mikhalkov's "Burnt by the Sun." Though he
himself is no friend of socialism, the film offers what would be an apt
socialist-humanist critique of both Stalinism and the persistence of the Russian
intelligentsia.

New Left Review #221 has an article by Ludmila Bulavka on this very issue.

In sol,
Greg.

valis wrote:

> She and her husband, characterized as a businessman,
> are pulling "a Solzhenitsyn."  If they're going back, they must expect
> that their kind of Russia in the offing.  She emphasized that they are
> Christians, and that she wants to offer her mind to her country.
>
> Well, I call that a high-stakes crapshoot, anyway.
>
>                                                                   valis



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