European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Gorbachev evolving glasnost by Bill Keller new York times Ess than four years ago. The exiled Pool Joseph Brodsky. Who lives in the United is ales gave a Loc Tyte on the surrealistic novels of Andrei Platonov a soviet author and was bitterly certain of one thing these books Neves were published in soviet Russia and Thoy never will be published i Here of they Como closest to doing to the system what it has done to its but Evhen one of the novels. The foundation pit a brutal y irreverent Able about the building of communism was published in the soviet Union in june. There was Lillic common there or in the West. Ii is not just that readers arc too nearly sated with Glass tool to gel excited about publication of Yel another Long censored literary Bombshell. A greater actor is thai glasnost or openness has itself moved on haltingly la More difficult challenges and topics glasnost the word Mikhail s Gorbachev uses to refer to his Campaign for More open discussion cd troublesome subjects has been evolving and maiming despite setbacks resistance and conspicuous Blind spots in has moved from sanctioned criticism of the Las regime s shortcomings to the beginning of a political debate Over the future of the soviet system on selected topics especially the direction and Pace of economic changes but also Segal rights election procedures Freedom of travel and changes in Educ Aion the soviet Public is now being presented with competing ideas and is being invited to speak up. In its firs phase glasnost was a idol for attacking society s shortcomings alcoholism drug abuse. Coi sullion economic waste and Tor Delusma Rumos by Gwng details on accidents and disasters. The exposes have continued and widened Dospil occasional rebukes of More sensation minded editors in the past month. Soviet readers have come across startling attacks on police brutality and court injustice including executions of innocent people in Panl. The weekly  Greta printed a letter from an inmate at a labor Camp charging thai the prison system created repeat offenders. Izvestia began a Campaign against abuses of psychiatry relating the cases of iwo Moscow women who the newspaper said had been improperly diagnosed As insane ii called if More humane conditions in mental hospitals no newspaper has yet suggested that labor Camps and menial hospitals Are used to confine political dissidents Oul Belore glasnost. Such in solutions were nol discussed in print Gorbachev partisans detect a Moie profound purpose in the exposure of incompetence and injustice. If the soviet Leader wants As he says to encourage individual initiative he must reassure citizens thai they will be protected against arbitrary penalties. In its second phase glasnost moved from exposes Inlo a re Exa Malion of official history airing hse Rary and historical accounts of the Stalin Era casting the much maligned Nikita s. Khrushchev in a More favourable Light and reviving memories of onetime bolshevik leaders like Leon Trotsky and Nikolai i Bukharin foes of Stalin who became  this rewriting of history so avos Gorbachev s purposes As his struggle for social and economic revival is essentially a Bailie against a institution of stalinism. Gorbachev has allowed something More than just another self serving revision of official history he has restored some of history s ambiguity. Topics like Stalin s military leadership in world War ii and Lenin s a Phol crimean tatars demonstrating near St. Basil s Cathedra in Moscow far return of their Homeland new economic policy of the 1920s Are matters of debate not just doctrine. The third phase of glasnost allow a Hmil cd Competition of ideas. Most striking has been the fierce and fundamental debate Over How far to carry economic changes. In the past iwo months journals have advocated abolition of Central planning the use of unemployment As an economic tool and the creation of a Stock Market Wilh workers owning shares in enterprises. Often the attacks Are followed by counterattacks. New Freedom for soviet artists by Gerald Nadler United press International for soviet artists Mikhail Gorbachev social reforms boil Down to a half mile stretch of a Moscow Park lined with paintings of churches monasteries and even nudes at of which they May sell to the Public. What is happening on saturdays and sundays beneath the Black onion shaped domes of Petrovsky Cathedral in Izmailova Park is a living example of glasnost the soviet Leader s policy of openness. Painters Are sketching drawing or painting portraits for the equivalent of $8 of $32 mothers and russian grandmothers or Babushka stand behind the artists watching intently and with growing Pride As with each stroke the laces of their  daughters and Granddad Gelors Are reproduced. For one Ruble or$1 62. Sorne artists will turn Oul Sil Houlles in Black others sketch pads balanced on their Knees specialize m portraits of couples Bui the Centrepiece of Iho weekend exhibits is a half mile Long line o  paintings o the russian landscape and monasteries and churches the artists stand before their creations some of which Are propped up by twigs others hanging by string on improvised stands in whal was unimaginable until the Gorbachev Era began two years ago the artists invite Stio tiers to buy we Havo ought eight years for  said Edgar Pere Yatko 52, standing m front of his surrealistic canvases it As a spontaneous movement it was our imitative thai is Why Rte feel Row thai v e Are at a wedding " por Fiyalko and other Adi is m his Section of the Park one recent weekend nodded  Heads in vigorous prospective buyer View the paintings of More than zoo artists on display to Betta put to Moscow. We flew agree Cal that without Gorbachev the new Freedom would never have happened Here everything comes together glasnost the problem of information and most import Ian of All. The liberation of the creative Spini of every Man said pee Yatko ii was Only 13 Jears .130 h ii pc la tvrs  3n outdoor eth bilion of non conformist Art authorities made a Bonfire of the canvases to teach a lesson to Loose who would deviate from the accepted Socrati is realism Art exalting ins state and  Iha workers the artists retreated to unofficial salons but p Yod othes police followed at names shul my Down Page 16 the stars and stripes sunday. September 6.19b7