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...MASTER AND MARGARITA by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Michael Glenny. 394 pages. Harper...
...left-wing intellectual he went to China in 1925 to serve as an aide to Mikhail Borodin, the Russian agent whose job was to subvert Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang for the Communists. That adventure was distilled in an epic novel entitled Man's Fate. When civil war broke out in Spain, Malraux signed on as a Loyalist air officer and wrote another novel based on personal experience, Man's Hope. In World War II he was a hero in the French maquis...
...Soviet Union. Even less so, in fact, when they are put in the mouth of none other than Jesus Christ, making his first appearance in Soviet literature in many years. And, to top matters off, the novel containing the passage, The Master and Margarita, was written by Mikhail Bulgakov, who died in disgrace in 1940 and is described by the official Big Soviet Encyclopaedia as a "slanderer of Soviet reality...
...longer in doubt. The Russians don't think so. Last month the party's Central Committee and the Soviet Council of Ministers ordered a major curriculum revision to be ready by 1970. Explaining why, Pravda this month published an unusually candid article by Russian Education Minister Mikhail Prokofiev, who charged that the vast Soviet school system is not only seriously deficient in science and math teaching, but is mired in a rigid "bookism" that makes learning a bore and produces an alarming dropout rate...
Whalen purportedly had several shopping-center contacts with a couple of Soviet embassy officials named Sergei Edemski and Mikhail A. Shumaev (code-named "Mike"). After Whalen had to retire because of a bad heart, he applied for a civilian job in sensitive Pentagon areas. He was rejected, much to the disappointment of Soviet espionage, according to the FBI. Whalen, who was fired from his park job in Fairfax County last month for some private espionage (he bugged a phone conversation between Mrs. Whalen and his boss), was arrested and released on $15,000 bail...