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...wrote her recollections in Twenty Letters to a Friend. Along with Yuri Kazakov and Vasily Aksenov, he ranks as one of the most widely read authors in Russia. Noted for his sparse, evocative style, he has written numerous short stories and four novels. His 1966 documentary novel, Babi Yar, which recounts the Nazi massacre of thousands of Russian Jews outside the author's native Kiev, implies that many Russians were not displeased to see the Jews gone. Kuznetsov's latest novel, The Fire, which was serialized in one of the largest Soviet magazines, tells of suicide and despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A SOVIET AUTHOR'S FLIGHT TO THE FREE WORD | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...country is the Soviet Union. Yet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko seemed born to the role when first he burst upon the Russian scene a decade ago. He was young, handsome and engaging. His luminous love lyrics signaled the new kind of poetry that was possible after the death of Stalin. Babi Yar was a courageous, impassioned protest against Russian antiSemitism. In The Heirs of Stalin, he made a frontal attack on Stalinists still active among the Soviet leadership. Soon Evtushenko commanded a vast following in Russia among people long weary of the dreary cant and moralizing themes of earlier Soviet literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Poet Under Fire | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...10th century; the main shopping area is still called Street of the Cross. Today a garden city with many parks and chestnut trees, Kiev draws tourists to the gold-domed St. Sophia Cathedral, one of the great masterpieces of Russian architecture, and to the nearby ravine of Babi Yar, the infamous spot commemorated in Evtushenko's poem, where some 200,000 Jews and Soviet prisoners were exterminated during the German occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Tips About Trips to the U.S.S.R. | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

...monument stands over Babi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ravine of the Dead | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...drop sheer as a crude gravestone . . . Patterns of Horror. Evtushenko's "Babi Yar" helped create a Soviet climate in which this Babi Yar, "a documentary novel," could be published last fall in Russia, where it was widely read and acclaimed. The first full-length account for Russians of Kiev's years under the German occupation, Babi Yar is fictional only in narrative form, not fact. Novelist Kuznetsov, a gentile, was twelve years old when the Nazis arrived; he spent the next two years in Kiev discovering war and deprivation along with his own manhood. He has taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ravine of the Dead | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

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