Word: zoshchenko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, an increase in international tension was always accompanied by increases in editorial censorship. Just after Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Mo., in 1946, Andrei Zhdanov issued his notorious edict subjecting Poet Anna Akhmatova and Writer Mikhail Zoshchenko to insulting criticism. Two years later Dmitri Shostakovich's music was denounced as unpatriotic...
...biographical" information on the dustcover, which sounds much like the drunken fiction inside. But if his background is unclear, Erofeev's literary heritage is not: his prose is in the great Russian grotesque tradition, hearkening back to Gogol by way of such earlier Soviet satirists as Bulgakov, Zamyatin, and Zoshchenko. There are also traces of authors as diverse as the Symbolist Andrei Bely (in some of the bizarre urban imagery). Rabelais, and J.D. Salinger (whose Catcher in the Rye was widely circulated in the Soviet Union...