Hers is a response typical of the spineless Russian intelligentsia. A good film illustrating this spinelessness is Mikhalkov's "Burnt by the Sun." Though he himself is no friend of socialism, the film offers what would be an apt socialist-humanist critique of both Stalinism and the persistence of the Russian intelligentsia. New Left Review #221 has an article by Ludmila Bulavka on this very issue. In sol, Greg. valis wrote: > She and her husband, characterized as a businessman, > are pulling "a Solzhenitsyn." If they're going back, they must expect > that their kind of Russia in the offing. She emphasized that they are > Christians, and that she wants to offer her mind to her country. > > Well, I call that a high-stakes crapshoot, anyway. > > valis -- Gregory Schwartz Dept. of Political Science York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Canada Tel: (416) 736-5265 Fax: (416) 736-5686 Web: http://www.yorku.ca/dept/polisci
