Word: nekrasov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again. According to the New York Times, Ligachev, 66, made a stinging speech at a recent gathering of Soviet journalists. He condemned the weekly magazine Ogonyok, which has been critical of the Soviet status quo. He denounced the weekly paper Moscow News for publishing an obituary of Viktor Nekrasov, a Soviet writer who was expelled from the Communist Party in 1972 and later emigrated to the West. Ligachev publicly rebuked the paper's editor, Yegor Yakovlev, for printing the tribute over Communist Party objections, saying it was unacceptable for a story to be published simply because of an "editor...
...What was I to do? Of course-there was always poetry! I recited Pushkin, Blok, Nekrasov and Tyutchev." She then composed a poem...
Wretched and abundant, Oppressed and powerful, Weak and mighty, Mother Russia! ?Nikolai Nekrasov, Who Can Be Happy in Russia...
Once a book has been forced into exile, its author often follows. Solzhenitsyn was ostentatiously deported in 1974, while Andrei Sinyavsky, Joseph Brodsky, Victor Nekrasov, Anatoli Gladilin, Yuz Aleshkovsky and others were pressured in various ways to emigrate. Vladimir Voinovich, the author of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, a samizdat favorite published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1977, was warned by the Soviet authorities in March that his life would become "intolerable" unless he left the Soviet Union...