Word: evtushenkos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most promising young writers. In an open letter to Kuznetsov, Amalric criticized his fellow writer not for defecting but for paying the price of being a KGB informer in order to obtain permission to go abroad. By his own admission, Kuznetsov told the KGB "a pure fiction"-that Evgeny Evtushenko, Vasily Aksyonov and other liberal Russian writers were planning to publish "a frightful underground magazine." Though full of remorse for his denunciation, which could have cost the innocent writers seven years of hard labor, Kuznetsov justified it on the ground that the Soviet system requires writers to work with...
...point during last week's celebrations, 200 restless young East Berliners paraded down Unter den Linden chanting: "Eins, zwei, drei, Sex!" But they knew better than to shout anything more defiant-such as demands for political reforms. Culturally, Ulbricht maintains such a tight rein that most of Evgeny Evtushenko's poetry is proscribed, and even some recent Soviet films have been banned as "unsafe." Determinedly apolitical, most of East Germany's citizens seem concerned exclusively with getting...
...Evgeny Evtushenko, Babi...
...either culture, she founded her own publishing house, Harvill Press, after World War II, then dedicated the rest of her life to introducing the works (many of which she translated herself) of contemporary Russian authors. She published the writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sinyavsky (Abram Tertz) and Evgeny Evtushenko, but was best known for collaborating with Max Hayward on the translation of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago...
...travel abroad. "Informers are what they like," he said to himself. "Fine. So they'll get a real piece of informing." He began to drop hints to the KGB that a new underground journal was about to be published by a group of his colleagues, including Poet Evgeny Evtushenko. Kuznetsov does not make clear whether his fabricated story actually placed those writers in any real danger. But he passes a tortured judgment on himself as well as other Soviet intellectuals. "I now believe," he says, "that the main reason why many highly intelligent and able people do not escape...