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Article: Reforming Soviet culture, retrieving Soviet history.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- June 13, 1987
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Reforming Soviet Culture/Retrieving Soviet History
The rapid cultural changes occurringin the Soviet Union today create a confusing picture for the Western reader: maverick film director Elem Klimov, whose 1975 film, Agony, was shelved for a decade because of its sympathetic portrayal of Czar Nicholas II, is elected first secretary of the Union of Cinematographers in May 1986; ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who defected in 1974, is invited in January 1987 to dance at the Bolshoi Theater; Boris Pasternak is posthumously reinstated to the Soviet Writers' Union in February 1987.
As those who have strayed from thefold, both geographically and politically, ...