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...members of the Soviet Writers' Union were fearless enough to protest formally Solzhenitsyn's expulsion. Two of them were promptly expelled from the union. Solzhenitsyn's protector and publisher, Alexander Tvardovsky, was forced to resign as editor of the magazine Novy Mir last month...
...experimental theater in Moscow. For many Russians, its debut seemed to signify a small break in the official campaign to silence Russia's independent writers and intellectuals, including Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Poet Alexander Tvardovsky, who recently handed in his resignation as editor of the liberal magazine Novy Mir (TIME, March...
...learn. The right knows what the left is doing, and the left knows what the right is doing, but neither knows who is really on the left and who is really on the right." > The last straw may have been the reading of a Voznesensky poem published in Novy Mir before Tvardovsky quit under conservative pressure. Called Can't Write, with the parenthetical subtitle (Ironic), the poem begins: "I am in crisis, my soul is dumb"-apparently a reference to Voznesensky's troubles with censorship. It goes...
...support of the work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It was Tvardovsky, for example, who first brought One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (see SHOW BUSINESS) to the attention of Nikita Khrushchev. The Premier was so impressed by the novel that he ordered it to be published in Novy Mir in 1962. But in 1966 Solzhenitsyn's writings were banned and he was expelled from the Soviet Writers Union last November...
Says Oxford's Max Hayward, one of the leading Western specialists on Soviet literature: Tvardovsky's departure marks the "decapitation" of Novy Mir and "an incalculable loss to Russia and the world." The magazine, he adds, "provided the focus for the post-Stalin revival of a critically thinking intelligentsia in Russia." The immediate effect of Novy Mir's disappearance as an outlet for independent writers will probably be an increase in the amount of good writing circulating from hand to hand by samizdat, the underground press...