Paradoxes of Perestroika

Svetlana Boym, an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, is the author of a play, The Woman Who Shot Lenin, recently performed in Boston, and a short film, Flirting with Liberty, which was screened at the New England Film and Video Festival. Her book, Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet, will be published in 1990. (updated 1990)