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Contents of Issue #7: ON BORIS PILNYAK by Leon Trotsky Top Party leader finds Pilnyak to be a promising realist but possessed of a troubling duality. CONVERSATION by Boris Pilnyak An excerpt from Pilnyak's novel The Naked Year. Short Biography of BORIS PILNYAK MARINA'S DISEASE by Vikenty Veresaev Story of love, sexual politics and abortion from 1930. SISTERS by Vikenty Veresaev Detailed summary of a 1933 novel chronicling the lives of two sisters who follow different paths on the road to love and collectivization. Everyone is in store for a big surprise when Comrade Stalin publishes his "Dizzy With Success" article. STARS by Yuri Nagibin Sketch about cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. RAFTS by Vladimir Vystosky Short about swimming, drunkenness and a near-death experience. LOVE FOR ELECTRICITY by Vassily Aksyonov Review of Aksyonov's novel about Lenin's old comrade, Leonid Krasin. |