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Ziiaiushchie vysoty was published in 1976, although Zinoviev claims that he thought of the title as long ago as 1945 (Zinoviev, 1990a:366). Apparently one of the prime motives for writing this huge book was the desire to ‘do something’ after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Zinoviev regarded Poland and Czechoslovakia as two socialist countries who sought by various means to resist the crushing effects of Soviet domination, and the abrupt ending of the ‘Prague Spring’ was a deeply disappointing event for him as for many others.
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Kirkwood, M. (1993). Ziiaiushchie vysoty. In: Alexander Zinoviev: An Introduction to His Work. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12483-1_3
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