While I was on bvacation/b in California, I picked up a couple of popular fictional works on McCarthyism, as the post-war political repression figures into the conclusion of my dissertation and I was just curious about how the events of the time b..../b My greatest 2007 "revelations" included Vyacheslav Rybakov's "bZvezda/b polyn'", fiction novel reflecting on an imaginary corporation developing space industry in today Russia, what comes on the background clash of 'liberal' and ...