4: Changes in the Countryside
* At first, no one could publish what famine and collectivisation were doing. Then peasants began creeping back into fiction as quaint survivors of an outmoded way of life. Gradually, touches of real life began breaking through. resulting in a new school of writers who are the pride of official publishers and admired by emigre writers like Solzhenitsyn.' Mary Seton-Watson . of the BBC's Russian
Service, with the last of her selections from stories and novels published in the many state-owned literary journals.
Readers GWEN WATFORD BENJAMIN WHITROW
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW