<<No 54 : 15 November 1979>> In March 1979, the newspaper of the Moscow Writers’ Organization Moscow Littérateur contained a short news item stating that the Secretariat of the RSFSR Writers’ Union 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 More About “Metropol”, Nov 1979 (54.21)
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The “Metropol” Almanac, March 1979 (52.14)
<<No 52 : 1 March 1979>> 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 and Yury Kublanovsky; poems … Continue reading The “Metropol” Almanac, March 1979 (52.14)
Dismissal of Ye. Etkind, April-May 1974 (32.17)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> Yefim Grigorevich Etkind — the well-known Soviet scholar — is a literary critic, a doctor of philology and a professor. He is a secretary of the Leningrad section of the Writers’ Union. He is author of the following books; Poetry and Translation (1963), On the Art of Being a … Continue reading Dismissal of Ye. Etkind, April-May 1974 (32.17)
Expulsion of Writers, May 1977 (45.17)
<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> On 18 March the Secretariat of the Moscow organization of the Writers Union voted for the expulsion of Vladimir KORNILOV, “for behaviour incompatible with the Statutes of the Writers Union”; more specifically, for the publication of a few stories in the journals Grani and Kontinent. The session of the … Continue reading Expulsion of Writers, May 1977 (45.17)
News in Brief, July 1973 (29.11)
<<No 29 : 31 July 1973>> [1] Irina Kristi, Tatyana Velikanova, 0lga Joffe, Irina Kaplun, Ludmila Kardasevich, Yury Kiselev, Malva Landa, Sergei Khodorovich, Tatyana Khodorovich and Nadezhda Shatunovskaya have sent a letter to R.A. Rudenko, Procurator-General of the USSR. It concerns a violation committed by the Moscow City Procurator’s Office with respect to S.G. Myuge … Continue reading News in Brief, July 1973 (29.11)
Materials from the Soviet press, 1972 (27.10)
<<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> On 26 July 1972, the paper Evening Tbilisi [Vecherny Tbilisi] published an interview with the Rector of the Pushkin Pedagogical institute in Tbilisi, Natela Vasadze. it included, amongst other things, the following exchange: Correspondent -- At a recent Plenum of the City Council one of your teachers was criticised … Continue reading Materials from the Soviet press, 1972 (27.10)
Alternative Culture, May 1978 (49.16)
<<No 49 : 14 May 1978>> Since 1974 an artists’ movement to make art independent of the authorities has become well known: the ’bulldozed’ exhibition and the exhibition of the Izmailovsky Park in Moscow (CCE 34); the exhibitions in the ’Bee-keeping’ pavilion (CCE 35) and the ‘Model House of Culture’ at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements … Continue reading Alternative Culture, May 1978 (49.16)
Writer-Parasites, March 1978 (48.19)
<<No 48 : 14 March 1978>> Writer-Parasites (48.19) and In the Central House of Writers (48.20) Writer-Parasites (48.19) Since the beginning of 1978, the activity of the administrative authorities aimed at classifying a number of writers living in the USSR as ‘parasites' or ‘persons leading a parasitical way of life' (the best known of the previous … Continue reading Writer-Parasites, March 1978 (48.19)
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