Word: yevtushenko
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...test. In 1948 he was attacked by the Central Committee of the Communist Party for "vestiges of bourgeois ideology." He apologized, and two years later won a Stalin Prize. In 1962 he once again aroused the state's displeasure for basing part of his Thirteenth Symphony on Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem Babi Yar, which denounced the Nazi massacre of Jews outside Kiev...
...Although organizers had promised that there would be no overtly anti-Soviet or religious art, there was one surrealist still life boldly titled Homage to Pasternak, and another artist caused an ideological stir by exhibiting a psychedelic portrait of Jesus. After taking a stroll through the exhibit, Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko remarked: "I see some good pictures, some bad ones and some mediocre ones, but the most important fact is that they are here in the first place...
Timid Choice. One Russian writer who rather surprisingly came to Solzhenitsyn's defense was Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the angry Establishment poet who has been notably servile toward the Kremlin in recent years. After learning of Solzhenitsyn's arrest, Yevtushenko sent what he described as "a polite and mild" telegram to Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. In it, he expressed his anxiety about the writer's fate and how it might affect the U.S.S.R.'s prestige...
...result, a scheduled Soviet TV show about Yevtushenko was canceled and he was given an angry summons from the Writers Union. Yevtushenko refused the union's demand that he publicly denounce Solzhenitsyn. Instead, he circulated a letter of protest about the cancellation of his show, in which he expressed "bitter disagreement" with parts of Gulag. Yet he argued for disclosure of "the bloody crimes of the Stalin era documented in the terrifying pages" of Gulag. Echoing one of Solzhenitsyn's recent appeals, the poet wrote: "In our timidity, let each of us make a choice whether to consciously...
...passionate about his motherland, Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 40, spends a lot of time outside the U.S.S.R. Wandering in the Far East to collect material for two new cycles of poems, he visited Singapore, where he gave a reading of "Cemetery of Whales" for a hastily assembled group of 20 university students. Apparently referring to recent criticism of him as a subsidized apologist for the Soviet regime, he declared: "I am a writer, never was and never will be an official representative of my country." The week before, the tall, skinny poet had paid a visit to the Philippines, where...