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«No 12 : 28 February 1970» TWENTY ENTRIES [1] Nadezhda Ya. Mandelstam Recollections of Osip E. Mandelstam This book is about the fate of the poet and the fate of a generation. A memorial to an era. (Translated into English and published as Hope against Hope.) * [2] Vasily Grossman Everything Flows ... Grossman wrote … Continue reading Samizdat, Feb ’70 (12.10)
«No 11 : 31 December 1969» Writers Union expels Solzhenitsyn. On 4 November 1969 the great Russian writer Alexander Isayevich SOLZHENITSYN was expelled from the Writers' Union by its Ryazan branch (RSFSR Writers Union). * Of the seven members of the Ryazan branch, six attended the meeting: Vasily Matushkin (Ryazan); Sergei Baranov (Ryazan, who chaired … Continue reading Solzhenitsyn Expelled, Nov ’69 (11.1)
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