Word: vsevolod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such innocuous concerns as German unity and anti-Fascist solidarity. The Russian angel of the performance, a small, feral, red-eyed lieutenant colonel named Alexander Dymshitz, sat and beamed. But as the sessions wore on, the Reds could not resist the temptation to make political hay. Up stood one Vsevolod Vishnevsky, a Soviet author and war reporter in excellent standing with the Kremlin. He told how, during the siege of Leningrad, he had personally saved German anti-Fascist and classical literature from German bombs. That was all right, but he went...
After two hour-long speeches in Russian, by Author-Correspondents Konstantin Simonov and Vsevolod Vishnevsky, beaming VOKS officials relinquished the floor to the Anglo-Americans...
...Future. As to the future of Russian literature, I heard the other night a most revealing program set forth by Vsevolod Vishnevsky, a distinguished playwright who is a naval officer and has written mostly about the Baltic Sea and the defense of Leningrad. Speaking specifically for the magazine Snamya, of which he is an editor, but inferentially for all Russian writers, he said that Russia's postwar writing will: 1) gather from partisans, soldiers, sailors, officers and workers the whole truth about this war; 2) glorify Russia's heroic traditions; 3) promote "Slavism" and see to it that...
...Soviet motion-picture industry passed at one stride from making crude propaganda shorts to making cine-masterpieces. Three great directors came up: Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko. They and others soon produced such silent film classics as Potemkin, The End of St. Petersburg, Ten Days That Shook the World, and one magnificent documentary film, A Shanghai Document. News of these movie marvels began to leak into the outside world, and business-minded Bolsheviks jumped at the chance to make propaganda and money at once. To distribute Soviet pictures in the U. S. they set up a U. S. company...