From: The New Leader | Date: October 7, 1991| Author: Sosin, Gene | COPYRIGHT 1991 American Labor Conference on International Affairs. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

  How Things Were Done 
in Odessa: Cultural and 
Intellectual Pursuits 
in a Soviet City 
By Maurice Friedberg 
Westview Press. 
192 pp. $35. 00. 
  Reviewed by Gene Sosin 
  Former Director of Program 
Planning, Radio Free 
Europe/Radio Liberty 

SUPPOSE MAT YOU are playing JEOPardy and the category is Russian cities. The answer is, " A Port on the Black Sea that is the locale of Sergei Eisenstein's classic film, The Battleship Poteymkin. " if you reply, " What is Odessa? ...