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...keep his head down after he was denounced in Pravda and saw his friends and colleagues persecuted and purged by Stalin during the Great Terror. This Shostakovich was a survivor, who saved his innermost feelings for his work. "Words are not my genre," he once said to Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whose poem Babi Yar he set in the brutal Symphony No. 13. "I never lie in music...
With the flowering of glasnost, some extraordinary things have begun appearing in the Soviet press. Among the more remarkable is this essay by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko, 54, published last month in the journal Literaturnaya Gazeta. Excerpts...
...special party conference, complete with delegate fights and live media coverage, stirs genuine political passions and could advance Gorbachev' s reforms. -- Writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko denounces the Russian tradition of servile patience. -- An I. R. A. bomb kills six British soldiers in Northern Ireland. -- Israel orders deportation of a Palestinian- American gadfly...
...introduction to the book, acclaimed Soviet writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko describes first meeting Turbina when she was eight and being very impressed with her poetry. The newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" first published her work...
Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko weighs in with a theatrical new collection. -- John Hersey lures the reader with a book on bluefishing...