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The Right to Love, by Markoosha Fischer. 280 pp. New York: Harper and Brothers. $3.50

I knew Markoosha Fischer long ago, when we were both inmates of the Soviet world. She is one of the few writers in the West with inside knowledge of the mind and heart of “Soviet Man,” and her latest book, though no classic like Gouzenko’s Fall of a Titan, or Victor Serge’s The Case of Comrade Tulayev, or even Soloviev’s When the Gods are Silent or Blunden’s A Room on the Route, merits recognition as one of the best novels we have had from authors who have lived and suffered with the Russian people. On a small canvas, and with figures easily envisioned by American readers, Mrs. Fischer tells a moving and authentic story of the lost generation of Communist youth, sons of the freethinking idealists who made the Revolution but themselves confined from childhood in the straitjacket of Communist conformity.

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The Right to Love, by Markoosha Fischer. 280 pp. New York: Harper and Brothers. $3.50

I knew Markoosha Fischer long ago, when we were both inmates of the Soviet world. She is one of the few writers in the West with inside knowledge of the mind and heart of “Soviet Man,” and her latest book, though no classic like Gouzenko’s Fall of a Titan, or Victor Serge’s The Case of Comrade Tulayev, or even Soloviev’s When the Gods are Silent or Blunden’s A Room on the Route, merits recognition as one of the best novels we have had from authors who have lived and suffered with the Russian people. On a small canvas, and with figures easily envisioned by American readers, Mrs. Fischer tells a moving and authentic story of the lost generation of Communist youth, sons of the freethinking idealists who made the Revolution but themselves confined from childhood in the straitjacket of Communist conformity.