ALEXANDER ZINOVIEV AS WRITER AND THINKER

ALEXANDER ZINOVIEV AS WRITER AND THINKER

Alexander Zinoviev as Writer and Thinker An Assessment Edited by Philip Hanson Reader in Soviet Economics University of Birmingham and Michael Kirkwood Senior Lecturer in Russian Language University of London M MACMILLAN PRESS

Philip Hanson and Michael Kirkwood 1988 Softcoverreprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1988 978-0-333-43218-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended), or under the terms of any license permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. 7 Ridgmount Street. London WC1E 7AE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 1988 Published by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Alexander Zinoviev as writer and thinker : an assessment. 1. Zinov'ev, Aleksandr L Hanson, Philip II. Kirkwood. Michael 197'.2 B4279.Z54 ISBN 978-1-349-09192-8 ISBN 978-1-349-09190-4 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-09190-4

Contents List of Plates Vll Acknowledgements ix Notes on the Contributors Xl Editors' Note xiii 1 Introduction 1 Philip Hanson and Michael Kirkwood 2 Alexander Zinoviev: Experiences of a Soviet Methodologist 10 Charles Janson 3 Alexander Zinoviev on the Role of Literature in Society 26 Arch Tait 4 Ideology in the Works of A.A. Zinoviev 44 Michael Kirkwood 5 Zinoviev's Fiction in the Context of Unofficial Russian Prose of the 1970s 61 Arnold McMillin 6 The Poems in The Yawning Heights 71 G.S. Smith 7 Alexander Zinoviev's Language 89 Wolf Moskovich 8 The Drawings and Paintings 105 Tomasz Mianowicz 9 Zinoviev's Art and its Context 113 Julian Graffy 10 Active and Passive Negation: An Essay in Ibanskian Sociology 118 Jon Elster 11 We and Zinoviev: A Political View 145 Wenzel Daneil v

VI Contents 12 Homo Sovieticus among the Russia-watchers 154 Philip Hanson 13 Moralism versus Science 173 Geoffrey Hosking 14 Stalin and Stalinism in the Works of Zinoviev 179 Michael Kirkwood 15 A Bibliography of Writings By and About Alexander Zinoviev 200 Philip Hanson Index 205

List of Plates Between pages 112-13 1. Eternally Living 2. Marx and Doves 3. Refrost 4. Homo Sovieticus 5. Rats 6. To the Congress in the West 7. Moscow in 50 years 8. The Soviet Army in the West VII

Acknowledgements The papers contained in this book were, with the exception of the chapter by Jon Elster, presented and discussed at a small conference held at the University of London in January 1986. The discussion on that occasion led to numerous revisions of the first drafts. It also helped the editors considerably in planning the book. We are grateful to the Nuffield Foundation and to the Ford Foundation for smallconference grants which made that conference possible. PHILIP HANSON MICHAEL KIRKWOOD ix

Notes on the Contributors Wenzel Daneil is the pen-name of a West European government official with a special interest in East-West relations. Jon Elster is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. Julian Graffy is Lecturer in Russian Language and Literature at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. Philip Hanson is Reader in Soviet Economics at the University of Birmingham. Geoffrey Hosking is Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. Charles Janson is a journalist and the publisher of Soviet Analyst. Michael Kirkwood is Senior Lecturer in Russian Language at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. Arnold McMillin is Professor of Russian at the University of Liverpool. Tomasz Mianowicz is a Polish-born journalist now living in Munich, and a regular contributor to Kultura (Paris). Wolf Moskovich is Professor of Slavic and Russian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. G. S. Smith is Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. Arch Tait is Lecturer in Russian Language and Literature at the University of Birmingham. Xl

Editors' Note In the footnotes and sometimes, where appropriate, in the text, we have identified Zinoviev's books simply by the initial letters of their titles. Where an English translation exists, we refer to that and the Russian original in that order. The list that follows does not include the more technical writings in logic. The translations of the Russian titles are given in the bibliography. YH zv RF SB ZNS BI VPR ZhD MIZ TRC KKR MDMCh HS GS NSNRNB NYP ED/ lng Yawning Heights Ziyayushchie vysoty The Radiant Future Svetloe budushchee Zapiski nochnogo storozha Bez illyuzii V preddverii raya Zheltyi dom My i zapad The Reality of Communism Kommunizm kak real'nost' Moy dom moya chuzhbina Homo Sovieticus Gomo sovetikus Ni svobody ni ravenstva ni bratstva Nashei yunosti polet Evangelie dlya Ivana Idi na Golgofu xiii

Also by Philip Hanson SOVIET- EAST EUROPEAN DILEMMAS (with Karen Dawisha) *THE CONSUMER IN THE SOVIET ECONOMY *ADVERTISING AND SOCIALISM *TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY IN SOVIET-WESTERN RELATIONS *Also published by Macmillan XV