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During her long life, Morawetz became a successful writer, raised a family and played a role in the defection of Soviet ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov
As a loyal and dependable kgb agent. and it's there that he begins to see things in a different light. [tim] the turning point for him was the soviet decision to crush the prague spring. an attempt at liberalizing the soviet-style regime in czechoslovakia in 1968. gordievsky has had an internal personal shift. he recognizes the inherent repressiveness of the soviet system which, as a kgb officer, he's sworn to defend. this is an ideological decision for him.
As a loyal and dependable kgb agent. and it's there that he begins to see things in a different light. [tim] the turning point for him was the soviet decision to crush the prague spring. an attempt at liberalizing the soviet-style regime in czechoslovakia in 1968. gordievsky has had an internal personal shift. he recognizes the inherent repressiveness of the soviet system which, as a kgb officer, he's sworn to defend. this is an ideological decision for him.
Lauren Oyler on the German author Jenny Erpenbeck and her private collection of ephemera from the German Democratic Republic.
A pulse-quickening novel about a tempestuous age-gap relationship at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall has won the top prize for translated fiction. The German author and her translator discuss how it entwines the personal and political