Volume 37, Number 7 · April 26, 1990
Soviet Lawyers in New York
By Murray Kempton
Fyodor Dostoyevski looked back in The Possessed upon 1868 as the delusory 'time of the first rumors about the emancipation of the serfs, when the whole of Russia suddenly rejoiced and was making preparations to be completely regenerated.' In that immemorial key, Andrei Makarov recently told a New York Association of the Bar seminar that 'the Soviets have a tendency to praise all new phenomena to the skies and be surprised when they fail.'
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