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Alexander Podrabinek, an underground-newspaper editor who was once exiled to Siberia for nearly six years for examining Soviet psychiatry in a book titled Punitive Medicine, contends that the changes are strictly cosmetic. Even though the special psychiatric hospitals are nominally controlled by the civilian Ministry of Health, he notes, the guards are still military personnel and the doctors commissioned officers. Says Podrabinek: "The only thing that has changed is the label." He claims that new language in the regulations has actually given the government even greater latitude to misuse psychiatry. Under the old rules, "mentally ill" people could...
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, Moscow Theater for Young Spectators. Soviet audiences are no longer shocked by Dostoyevsky's long-banned philosophical ramble or, for that matter, by the full frontal nudity staged by director Kama Ginkas...
...course an underground rock scene flourished. Concerts were often a clandestine affair, staged on the spur of the moment in out-of-the-way auditoriums. And despite official discouragement, a few groups like Time Machine, the first band to sing openly about social problems, and the Leningrad-based Akvarium managed to thrive...
...unauthorized concert disk put out last year by Melodiya, the country's sole record label. There is talk of a U.S. tour as well, possibly in June. "We're hoping to sign a few small contracts," Sukachev admits. Still, he says he wouldn't give up the band's underground years for anything. "Those years are our strength," he says. "We'd be nothing without them...
...nation that has always adored social satire, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, 55, is the undisputed comic laureate of glasnost. Once forced to circulate tapes of his routines underground, today Zhvanetsky plays thousand-seat arenas, appears on national television and counts Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev among his fans. To give readers a flavor of his comedic style, TIME asked Zhvanetsky to write a monologue about his trip to the U.S. last year...