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Article: The Ransom of Russian Art. (book reviews)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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When I arrived in Moscow in January 1972, two aging icons American journalism were still in place after nearly four decades. Edmund Stevens and Henry Shapiro were rivals in Moscow longevity but both had long lost their ability to see or report on contemporary life in the Soviet Union.
This was the time when Armand Hammer, the elderly oil tycoon, took the lead in attempting to establish business detente between Washington and Moscow, signing trade deals and investing in a new hotel and office complex. It was the beginning of the Jewish emigration movement, Andrei Sakharov's emergence as the leading democratic liberal and the campaign to expel Alexander Solzhenitsyn, ...