<<No 54 : 15 November 1979>> In March 1979, Moscow Literator, the newspaper of the Moscow Writers’ Organization, contained a short news item: the Secretariat of the RSFSR Writers’ Union, it said, had ‘suspended’ their previous decision to admit Victor Yerofeyev and Yevgeny Popov to the USSR Writers’ Union owing to "behaviour unworthy of the … Continue reading “Metropol” (2), Nov ’79 (54.21)
<<No 52 : 1 March 1979>> * The “Metropol” Almanac Towards the end of 1978 some members of the USSR Writers Union (Vasily Aksyonov, Andrei Bitov, Viktor Yerofeyev, Fazil Iskander and Yevgeny Popov) compiled a literary almanac entitled Metropol. It contained poems by Yevgeny Rein, Inna Lisnyanskaya, Semyon Lipkin, Andrei Voznesensky, Genrikh Sapgir, Yury Karabchiyevsky … Continue reading “Metropol” (1), Mar ’79 (52.14)
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