ACROSS from the Hotel Uzbekistan k is a bright-yellow building with classical white columns which looks a little like a giant doll house and serves as the headquarters of the Writers' Union, I went there to meet Abdulrahim Pulatov, ..... Another woman, Varvara Zhakova, a frail eighty-fiveyear-old who had come from Siberia with her parents, told me, "We've seen everything. My mother, my father were whipped by Stalin's people. In the past, if you weren't with the Communist ...
