To return to the Soviet Union or not to return? That is the question now facing one of Russia's most popular novelists. On August 15, 1990, the citizenship of Vladimir Voinovich-as well as that of Alexander Solzhe- nitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, and other Soviet artists-in-exile-was restored. But going home poses problems. Voinovich describes his dilemma.

by Vladimir
If you want something good to hap-

pen in Russia, said the Russian
writer Kornei Chukovsky, you have
to live a long life. Chukovsky to...