SOVIET FRONTIERS OF
TOMORROW. By Harold Griffin.
Progress Publishers, 1982. Il-
lustrated, cloth $4.95.

Siberia — when the name comes
up, it’s usually in the context of an
anti-Soviet joke, or grimly depicted
in the pages of a Tolstoy novel.
Even in today’s relatively
sophisticated times, little of the
truth filters through the contriv-
ed myths about the USSR’s
counterpart to the Canadian far

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Soviet Frontiers of Tomorrow.

By ‘“‘frontiers,’’ Griffin means
both the expanses of Siberia and
the newest frontier, outer space.
Unfortunately, the latter is limited
to the final chapter, which concen-
trates all too briefly on a few of the
latest Soviet advances in this field.

This latest Canadian perspective
on Siberia is presented by Progress
Publishers, the large Soviet
publishing house whose series on
‘Impressions of the USSR’’ has
offered various foreigners’ obser-
vations on the multinational state
in several languages for millions of
readers around the world.

The first Canadian impression
was, of course, Sibir, the warm and
often humorous account by Farley
Mowat, who broke new ground by
offering Canadians a view of the
region without the usual political
prejudices of Western writers.
Griffin’s Soviet Frontiers can be
seen as an update, or it can stand in
its own light. Based on extensive
travels and interviews with both of-
ficials and randomly selected
Soviet workers, his book shows
Siberia as a fascinating place in
which resource exploitation is
coupled with a respect for the en-
vironment and where human
potential can be realized to the full.

Griffin, a former editor of the
Pacific Tribune and The Fisher-
man and author of works on B.C.
and labor history and several
volumes of verse, brings his own
political perspective to bear on the
people and development of the
Siberian frontier. But faults as well
as virtues are examined, and Soviet
Frontiers avoids eulogizing in favor

Phil Rankin, Vancouver, writes:
in October, LaQuena (The Flute)
Coffee House opened at I111
Commercial Drive. LaQuena is the
vroduct of the Canadian-Latin
American Cultural Society and is
unique in Vancouver as coffee
houses go. It is open from about 1k
a.m. to 11 p.m. six days a week. On
Mondays, the coffee house is
available to organizations free to
hold meetings.

LaQuena is also unique in that it
provides some of the best enter-
tainers in town on Friday and
Saturday nights. Not only local
groups, but also such well known

" groups as the Salvadorean ensem-

The USSR’s ‘new frontiers’

of a balanced, positive perspective
on subjects ranging from oil and
gas exploration in the area around
Tyumen in Western Siberia,
through efforts to preserve the
delicate ecology of Lake Baikal to
the development and participation
of the region’s native peoples.

The book is also enhanced by
Griffin’s attenion to history and
prehistory. In 221 pages he
manages to provide a well-rounded
perspective, utilizing historical
documents from both Russian and
foreign sources and the latest
theories on the area’s prehistoric
period. :

This not only provides a colorful
background to present day Siberia,
but poses a striking contrast as well.
Gone forever are the days when the
vast resources were plundered, and
its people decimated, by the greed
of Moscow merchants. Gone as
well is the era when Siberia served
as a penal colony for political and
social prisoners of the Cczarist
regimes.

Modern-day Siberia, with its
constantly expanding cities and en-
vironmentally conscious resource
development, also stands con-
trasted to the Canadian arctic
where concerns for ecological
balance and the alienation of native
people are usually at odds with the
exploitation of its riches.

Written with keen observation,
and accompanied by numerous
photographs, Soviet Frontiers of
Tomorrow is available at the Peo-
ple’s Cooperative. Bookstore in
Vancouver.

' —Dan Keeton

LETTERS

is unique

ble Yolocamba-ita, Osvaldo Tor-
res, anoted Chilean singer, and the
Guatemalan live theatre group
Teatro Vivo have appeared. La-
Quena has also hosted such people

‘as Vincent Noel, a Grenadian trade

unionist who was a speaker there,
and LaQuena is now experimen-
ting with films on Latin America,
on Sundays.

The membership runs the place
as a collective and services are pro-
vided by people who have
volunteered for a few years to work
in the coffee house to make it go.
Renovations were also made possi-
ble by donations.

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HAROLD GRIFFIN

will autograph
his new book,

of Tomorrow

Saturday, Jan. 22
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