Volume 18, Number 3 · February 24, 1972
I. F. Stone Reports: Can Russia Change?
By I.F. Stone
A Chronicle of Current Events Republished in English by Amnesty International Publications, Turnagain Lane, Farringdon St., London EC4, England
Journal of the Soviet Human Rights Movement
Published Bi-Monthly in Samizdat in Moscow. Issues No. 16 to 21, $10.00 a year
Let History Judge
by Roy A. Medvedev
Knopf, 584 pp., $12.50
Uncensored Russia: Protest and Dissent in the Soviet Union
by Peter Reddaway
American Heritage, 499 pp., $10.00 (to be published in March)
Underground political opinion in the Soviet Union, as revealed in the Chronicle of Current Events and other samizdat publications now available in English, is extraordinarily diverse. Under the frozen ideological tundra, all the old Russian tendencies from anarchist idealism to anti-Semitic reaction, almost Black Hundreds style, are still alive. The Medvedev brothers are themselves somewhere in the middle of the spectrum; they represent, in the new context of communism, a kind of neo-Kadet movement. They are constitutional democrats, who would keep the new communist czarism but limit its powers while expanding the rights of its subjects.
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