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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Planted Cronies. If the Chinese in Peking think that Khrushchev blundered, are there any "Chinese" in Moscow who think so too? Publication in Pravda of a year-old anti-Stalin poem by Evgeny Evtushenko (TIME, Nov. 2) was noted with fascination by some students of Soviet policy; to them it suggested that Khrushchev's crowd was issuing a warning to its Stalinist enemies. In addition, Izvestia stated emphatically that the Soviet decision to withdraw the Cuba missiles was "the only correct one in the prevailing circumstances," which sounded as if a defense of the move had become necessary. Finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: The Adventurer | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

Robert Lowell: "A poet of great originality and power who has, extraordinarily, developed instead of repeating himself. His poems have a wonderful largeness and grandeur, exist on a scale that is unique today. You feel before reading any new poem of his the uneasy expectation of perhaps encountering a masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: View from Parnassus | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

Verse is not the usual medium through which Russia's masters express themselves, but last week an obvious political hint was to be found in a poem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Tomb with a Telephone | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...dead as Old Joe himself. Since early this year, Poet Evgeny Evtushenko (TIME cover, April 13), most popular spokesman of Russia's restive younger generation, has recited for trusted friends an eloquent, venomous attack on Stalinism that he considered too hot to publish. For a while, the poem circulated through Russia's mysterious poetic underground, until last week it was printed in full by the party newspaper Pravda. For whatever purpose, the party evidently wanted to suggest that Stalinism still exists, and that Khrushchev is its enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Tomb with a Telephone | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

According to the poem, Stalin is only pretending to be dead. "Inside his grave," cries Evtushenko, "I envisage a phone" whose wires lead to Albania's Strongman Enver Hoxha. In a clear allusion to Rose-Fancier Vyacheslav Molotov, the poem says that some of Stalin's other heirs "prune roses in retirement, and secretly consider retirement only temporary." Some secret Stalinists "curse Stalin from the podium; but then, by night, they long for the old days." To foil their ambitions, Evtushenko pleads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Tomb with a Telephone | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

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