Volume 39, Number 3 · January 30, 1992
The Charms of Terror
By Murray Kempton
The Inner Circle
a film by Andrei Konchalovsky
The Inner Circle: An Inside View of Soviet Life Under Stalin
by Andrei Konchalovsky, by Alexander Lipkov, translated and edited by Jamey Gambrell
Newmarket Press, 147, 150 photographs pp., $16.95 (paper)
Columbia Pictures began showing Andrei Konchalovsky's The Inner Circle on the day the Kremlin struck the colors of Lenin's flag and raised the tsar's in its place. Lenin had proclaimed the end of God, Who survived, and now the Russians have decreed the end of the Devil, that old dog whose death-defying toughness is Konchalovsky's theme.
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