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- Subject: Re: SF Stories that forshadow the break down of eastern Europe
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 20:54:29 EST
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- In article <8210@lib.tmc.edu>
- drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David GUtierrez) writes:
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- >
- >I haven't read it, but Norman Spinrad's novel "Russian Spring" (published last
- >year) is supposed to deal with this subject. The Soviet Union fell between the
- >time he finished the book and the time it was published.
- >
-
- While Russian Spring did foreshadow some of the economic problems the
- satellite states are having, it did NOT foreshadow USSR falling apart. In
- fact, his Russia is a capitalistic socialist state, with the somewhat-pro
- capitalist communist party fairly strongly in charge. [Though one of the
- subplots deal with an internal struggle between the hardline old fashioned
- commmies and the new capitalistic commies.]
- I actually read the hardcover edition; in the paperback, there is a short
- introduction by Spinrad to deal with the differences between his predictions
- and reality. It seemed to me that Spinrad was half wishfully predicting
- USSR will get back together again. Perhaps it's his old radical politics
- making itself felt again... :) [But, of course, since I skimmed it at the
- local bookstore, I may have gotten the wrong impression.]
- btw, I enjoyed the book even though it had some plot points which I
- disliked.
-
- Junsok Yang
-