[PEN-L:1316] Re: A progressive coup? II

[valis <valis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Gregory Schwartz:
> 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.

Matters of context and process, I guess, prevent my understanding how
Ratushinskaya's intentions equate with spinelessness; it has been many
years since I was in any serious contact with people from that element.
What would you have her do instead, and what would that mean?

The film is New York / Toronto fare, but I'll look for the NLR article.

                                                                   valis