Word: evtushenkos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...works are banned in the Soviet Union, or Poet Andrei Voznesensky, who is forbidden to travel abroad, Kuznetsov seemed to enjoy the privileges and prerogatives that come to an obedient Soviet writer. He has been a member of the Communist Party since 1955. Only last month, after Poet Evgeny Evtushenko and two other liberals were purged from the editorial board of Yunost (Youth), a big Soviet monthly, Kuznetsov was given one of the posts...
...Soviet Union is controlled by people who are ignorant, cynical, and themselves very remote from literature. But they are people with excellent knowledge of the latest instructions from the men at the top of the prevailing Party dogmas. I could not force my way through their ranks. [Evgeny] Evtushenko managed to achieve a little in this way. [Al-exanderl Solzhenitsyn managed a little more, but even that is all over now. The cracks were noticed and cemented up. Russian writers go on writing and keep hoping for something. It is a nightmare...
Shortly after Hardy arrived in Moscow, Poet Evgeny Evtushenko, an old friend, came round to his hotel. "We meet at a moment of truth," Evtushenko told him. "I wrote to my government to oppose the action in Czechoslovakia...
...they say I am the enemy of the state. To whom shall I write?" Hardy says that Evtushenko was forced to delete 80 previously published poems from his latest collection of verse and that he was scarcely alone among Soviet writers in his opposition to the invasion. The hard-lining officials of the Writers Union, he reports, were unable to gather enough signatures for a declaration supporting the Soviet action. A compromise letter was finally produced, much milder in tone and with only 34 signers - out of a union membership of 6,600 writers...
...spite of these statements-which no other liberal Russian writer has made -some specialists feel that the present assault on Evtushenko is an exercise in overkill. "Why pick on Evtushenko?" asks Wayne State University's Vera Dunham, a leading specialist in Russian poetry. "He has never done anyone any real harm. It would make more sense to denounce the men actually responsible for putting Russian writers on trial, and examine the society that made Evtushenko what he is-a brash conformist and rather uncultured Soviet young man." Professor Dunham believes that his critics have no right to expect Evtushenko...