Cika jumla mai zuwa:
Bayan abubuwan da suka faru a Prague, Zinoviev ya zo da ra'ayin wani littafi mai ban dariya game da gaskiyar Soviet. Littafin, mai taken "Yawning Heights", ya girma ne daga jerin labaran da aka rubuta a farkon shekarun 1970; daga cikinsu akwai wani labari game da Ernst Neizvestny, wanda aka keɓe ga makomar baiwa a cikin al'umma. Sai ya fara zanen. An tura labaran zuwa Yamma, an buga su a Poland da Czechoslovakia, an rarraba labaran da ba a sanya hannu ba a cikin samizdat. An rubuta babban ɓangaren littafin a cikin wani gida mai cirewa a Peredelkino a lokacin rani na 1974 kuma an kammala shi a farkon 1975. Zinoviev ya rubuta tsabta, matar ta taka rawar da mai gyara da edita. Da taimakon abokai, aka aika da rubutun (kusan shafuffuka dubu da aka buga da na'ura) zuwa Faransa. Zinoviev bai yi tsammanin za a buga shi da sauri ba, saboda dalilai daban-daban duk gidajen buga littattafan Rasha sun ƙi rubutun. Mawallafin shi ne Vladimir Dmitrievich, wani ɗan Serbia wanda ya yaɗa wallafe-wallafen Rasha ga masu karatu masu jin Faransanci; ya ga rubutun, kuma ya so shi sosai. Jim kaɗan kafin bugawa bayan wani kin amincewa da tafiya zuwa ƙasashen waje (magana mai ma'ana a cikin Finland) a watan Yunin 1976, Zinoviev ya shiga cikin rikici tare da hukumomi. Ya gayyaci 'yan jarida na Yammacin Turai zuwa gidansa kuma ya yi zanga-zangar zanga-zanga, sa'an nan kuma ya juya a cikin katin jam'iyyar a Cibiyar Falsafa. Canjin ya kasance tare da yanayi mai ban dariya: sakataren jam'iyyar, kasancewar kwaminisanci ne na akida, ya yi kokarin hana Zinoviev daga matakinsa, ya ƙi karɓar katin membobin jam'iyyar. Da yake fitar da Zinoviev daga ofishin, ya kulle kansa kuma sau da yawa ya tura daftarin aiki a ƙofar.