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...does Yevgeny Yevtushenko spell relief? G-L-A-S-N-O-S-T. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign of "openness" has given him another opportunity to star in his most celebrated role. Since he first packed them in at Mayakovsky Square during the early days of Khrushchev, the dramatic Siberian has been known internationally as the thaw poet. Less privileged Soviet writers know him for his adaptability on thin...
...been eagerly anticipated by Soviet intellectuals for more than a year, and many are hailing it as the literary event of their generation. People who have already read the novel are heaping praise on it. "This is a great book, a great moment in our literature," declared Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko. "Rybakov was the man to do this. He is old enough to be a witness to that time. Mother History chose him. After this, it will be impossible to have the same history books in our libraries and schools...
...visitors found time to schmooze and booze with their hosts, take in the sights and visit the Bolshoi and other Moscow theaters. The best place for stargazing was the cavernous marble lobby of the Kosmos Hotel, where Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov shuffled between round-table discussions and Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko appeared one morning in a bright red suit. Black Volga sedans and Chaika limousines waited outside the three designated hotels to ferry around the visiting VIPs, but many of the stars preferred to troop onto buses in a display of good comradeship...
...Yevgeni Yevtushenko, 53, has for three decades been the most famous poet in the Soviet Union, a country where poets often become national heroes. A young rebel in the late 1950s, he flourished during the cultural thaw of the Khrushchev years. After Brezhnev came to power in 1964, Yevtushenko adapted to more conservative times, becoming a supporter of the government and writing verse acceptable to the Kremlin. In this article written for TIME, he gives his views of the changes under Gorbachev...
...shelves and books out of desk drawers. The Chopping Block, a new novel by Chingiz Aitmatov, features drugs as its theme and a former seminarian as its hero. Anatoli Rybakov's forthcoming novel The Children of the Arbat deals with Stalinist terror. This new freedom, said Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko, has developed into a "pre-Renaissance" of the arts...