SHORTLY after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian President Boris Yeltsin allowed a small number of academics to poke around in the previously secret Communist Party and KGB archives.

Director Elia Kazan, the hard-driving immigrant’s son whose triumphs included the original Broadway productions of Death Of A Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire, and the Academy Award-winning film On The Waterfront,” has died. He was 94.