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...Union. Some even demanded that he be thrown out of the country. They called him a "pig rooting in our Soviet garden." Today Historian Dmitri Likhachev in a Literaturnaya Gazeta article unequivocally demands that Doctor Zhivago be published. Today our literary journals are preparing important books for publication: Vladimir Dudintsev writing about Stalin's suppression of genetics; Anatoli Pristavkin on the forced resettlement of ethnic Chechens from the Caucasus; Anatoli Rybakov on the assassination of Sergei Kirov. All these subjects were banned in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Poet's View of Glasnost | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...Vladimir Dudintsev's Not by Bread Alone, which Khrushchev criticized in 1957 after it became a bestseller both in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., was not really such a bad book-said Khrushchev expansively, "I must say there are certain passages which deserve attention." Deputy Premier Mikoyan, he said, had first put him on to the book, pointing out that there were passages in it that the author literally took from Khrushchev. "Yes," said Khrushchev, Dudintsev had borrowed his own criticisms of Soviet bureaucracy in telling of the frustrations of an inventor trying to get his invention accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Khrushchevicm Angels | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...copies of the magazine Neva, in which it first appeared, were sold out almost immediately; a paperback edition of half a million sold out in one day. The Yershov Brothers bears some resemblance to Not by Bread Alone in its plot and its factory setting, but unlike Dudintsev, Kochetov will never have to make apologies to the Central Committee for inaccurate descriptions of Socialist life. His book is a sharp attack on those who tried to "take advantage" of the Party's 1956 leniency; intellectuals in general get a sound thrashing...

Author: By Philip Nutmeg, | Title: The Totalitarian Squelch | 12/6/1958 | See Source »

...presented orthodox literary judgments in dismissing as a "bad writer" Russia's Vladimir Dudintsev, whose recent novel Not by Bread Alone revealed the seamy side of Soviet bureaucracy...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: Russian Editors Will Finish Visit In TV Interview | 5/23/1958 | See Source »

...BREAD ALONE, by Vladimir Dudintsev. No great shakes as a novel, but an important book, published in the West despite Moscow protests. With toughness and sarcasm, a Russian living in Russia in effect damns the Soviet regime, its bureaucracy and cynical disregard for individual aspiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: The YEAR'S BEST | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

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