easing up on several fronts: halting religious persecution (and freeing the 400 or so current "religious prisoners"); opening the doors to emigration; creating less arbitrary legal and penal systems; and appeasing some dissident ethnic groups, particu- larly the Muslim Tatars and Meskhetians who were ousted from Crimea and Georgia Stalin in 1944.
Help for the "dissident" group most in need of reform-the proletariat-is not so close at hand, the author maintains. Various workers'...