"the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's story ""One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"", which became a sensation, and made history as the first uncensored publication about Gulag labor camps. There was still a lot of agitation against religion that had temporarily halted during the war effort and the years after toward the end of Stalin's rule. The era of the Cultural Thaw ended in December 1962 after the Manege Affair. Censorship of the arts relaxed throughout the Soviet Union. During this time of liberalization, Russian composers, performers, and listeners of music experienced a newfound openness in musical expression which"
"with the manuscript of ""One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"". It was published in edited form in 1962, with the explicit approval of Nikita Khrushchev, who defended it at the presidium of the Politburo hearing on whether to allow its publication, and added: ""There's a Stalinist in each of you; there's even a Stalinist in me. We must root out this evil."" The book quickly sold out and became an instant hit. In the 1960s, while he was publicly known to be writing ""Cancer Ward"", he was simultaneously writing ""The Gulag Archipelago"". During Khrushchev's tenure, ""One Day in"
"recollections beginning from his time spent incarcerated in the former USSR Gulag labour camp in Yertsevo in Arkhangelsk Oblast, and a description of the journey he took to join the Polish divisions forming in Persia. Written 10 years before Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's ""One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"", it brought him international acclaim but also criticism from Soviet sympathizers. The book contains detailed, often drastic depictions from the lives of Gulag prisoners. Much of the book is given to the analysis and interpretation of the attitudes, behaviour and emotions of specific prisoners and also to the internal mechanisms and"
"of the Russian penal system. It discussed the system's origins from the founding of the Communist regime, with Vladimir Lenin having responsibility, detailing interrogation procedures, prisoner transports, prison camp culture, prisoner uprisings and revolts, and the practice of internal exile. ""The Gulag Archipelago"" has sold over thirty million copies in thirty-five languages. According to fellow gulag historian Anne Applebaum, ""The Gulag Archipelago""'s rich and varied authorial voice, its unique weaving together of personal testimony, philosophical analysis, and historical investigation, and its unrelenting indictment of communist ideology made ""The Gulag Archipelago"" one of the most influential books of the 20th century."
"criticizing Joseph Stalin's conduct of the war in letters to a friend. He was sentenced to eight years in the Gulag. He was released in 1953 and pardoned in 1957. He later moved to Ryazan, near Moscow, to work as a mathematics teacher. There he wrote his early novels and novellas: ""One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"" and ""The First Circle"", based on his time in the Gulag; and ""Matryona's Place"" and ""Cancer Ward"", based on his experiences in ""internal"" exile in rural Russia and Tashkent between 1953 and 1957. In 1961, he sent the manuscript of ""One"
"Ivan Goncharov Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (; ; – ) was a Russian novelist best known for his novels ""A Common Story"" (1847), ""Oblomov"" (1859), and ""The Precipice"" (1869). He also served in many official capacities, including the position of censor. Goncharov was born in Simbirsk into the family of a wealthy merchant; as a reward for his grandfather's military service, they were elevated to gentry status. He was educated at a boarding school, then the Moscow College of Commerce, and finally at Moscow State University. After graduating, he served for a short time in the office of the Governor of"
"his novel, ""Ancient of Days"", was on the ""New York Post""'s bestseller list for six weeks, though his masterpiece is typically considered to be his novel, ""Only the Dead Speak Russian"". Irving Greenfield Irving A. Greenfield (born 1929) is a humanities professor and the prolific author of over 300 novels. He is best known as the writer of ""Ancient of Days"" and ""Only the Dead Speak Russian"". Dr. Irving Greenfield was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 22, 1928. Graduating from Brooklyn College in 1950, Greenfield spent two years in the Merchant Marine and served during the Korean War"
"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's groundbreaking ""One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"", a novella about a prisoner of the Gulag. In the same year its circulation was about 150,000 copies per a month. The magazine continued publishing controversial articles and stories about various aspects of Soviet and Russian history despite the fact that its editor-in-chief, Alexander Tvardovsky, facing significant political pressure, resigned in February 1970. With the appointment of Sergey Zalygin in 1986, at the beginning of the perestroika period, the magazine practised increasingly bold criticism of the Soviet Government, including figures such as Mikhail Gorbachev. It also published fiction and"
"Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy () ( – ), was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist, primarily on the strength of his dramatic trilogy ""The Death of Ivan the Terrible"" (1866), ""Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich"" (1868), and ""Tsar Boris"" (1870). He also gained fame for his satirical works, published under his own name (""History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev"", ""The Dream of Councillor Popov"") and under the collaborational pen name of Kozma Prutkov. His fictional works include the novella"
"Russian literature. Fyodor Dostoyevsky in particular is noted for exploring suffering in works such as ""Notes from Underground"" and ""Crime and Punishment"". Christianity and Christian symbolism are also important themes, notably in the works of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov. In the 20th century, suffering as a mechanism of evil was explored by authors such as Solzhenitsyn in ""The Gulag Archipelago"". A leading Russian literary critic of the 20th century Viktor Shklovsky, in his book, ""Zoo, or Letters Not About Love"", wrote, ""Russian literature has a bad tradition. Russian literature is devoted to the description of unsuccessful love affairs."" Russian literature"
"the title ""The Half-century of Ordinary Life"" (""Полвека обыкновеннй жизни""). His most famous book to this day is ""Sailing Directions in the Black Sea"" (""Лоция Черного моря""). Ivan Shestakov Ivan Alexeyevich Shestakov (; 13 April 1820 – 3 December 1888) was a Russian naval officer, statesman, and writer. Shestakov was born in the village of Syrokorenye in Smolensk Governorate to the Russian noble family of captain-lieutenant Alexey Antonovich Shestakov and Yevdokiya Ivanovna Khrapovitskaya. After finishing his studies at the Naval Cadet Corps (1830–1836), he served in the Black Sea Fleet. In 1837, Shestakov participated in the landing operation near Cape"
"to help. During the chaos that follows she is killed by a train. Her character has been described as ""the only true Christian (and) the only true Communist"" and her death symbolic of Russia's martyrdom. Set in 1956, five years after the events portrayed in ""One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"", the novella is considered to be one of the author's finest literary achievements. It is accessible to non-native speakers who have learnt Russian to an intermediate level. Matryona's Place Matryona's Place (""Матрёнин двор""), sometimes translated as ""Matryona's Home"" (or House), is a novella written in 1959 by"
"was transformed to unimaginable horror with daily tortures by forced administration of drugs, beatings and other forms of punishment. Many went crazy, could not endure what was happening to them, some even died during the ""treatment"" (for example, a miner from Donetsk Alexey Nikitin). Many books and memoirs are written about the life in the psychiatric Gulag and every time when reading them a shiver seizes us. Viktor Nekipelov Viktor Aleksandrovich Nekipelov (, 29 September 1928 in Harbin, China – 1 July 1989 in Paris) was a Russian poet, writer, Soviet dissident, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group. He spent"
"best-known masters of humorous and satirical verse of his time in Russia. Many of them were collected in the books ""Pesni Klassika"" (The Classic's Songs, 1873), ""Na rassvete"" (At Dawn, 1882), ""Stikhotvoreniya"" (Poems, 1891). He also authored the short novel ""Besputnye deti"" (Wayward Children, 1874), as well as ""Vesyoly poputchik"" (Jolly Companion, 1889), a compilation of travel sketches and stories he wrote during his numerous journeys, to Austria, Italy, Germany, as well over Siberia, Ukraine and Caucasus. Alexey Ivanov-Classic Alexey Fyodorovich Ivanov (, 14 February 1841, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, — 15 January 1894, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian writer"
"Dmitry Grigorovich Dmitry Vasilyevich Grigorovich () ( – ) was a Russian writer, best known for his first two novels, ""The Village"" and ""Anton Goremyka"", and lauded as the first author to have realistically portrayed the life of the Russian rural community and openly condemn the system of serfdom. Dmitry Grigorovich was born in Simbirsk to a family of the landed gentry. His Russian father was a retired hussar officer, his French mother, Cydonia de Varmont, was a daughter of a royalist who perished on guillotine in the times of the Reign of Terror. Having lost his father early in"
"information. ↑ Vinogradov AK Anatoly Vinogradov. Collected works in three volumes. Volume One / Ed. N. Novikova. - M .: Fiction, 1987. - P. 9. - 623 p. - . Pyshka (1934) • Thirteen (1936) • Lenin in October (1937) • Lenin in 1918 (1939) • The Dream (1941) • The Man No. 217 (1945) • The Russian Question (1947) • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1949) • Secret Mission (1950) • Admiral Ushakov (1953) • Ships storm bastions (1953) • Murder on Dante Street (1956) • Nine Days of One Year (1962) • Ordinary Fascism (1965) • And yet I believe"
"by Evgenia Antipova, """"On the Zhdanovka River"""" by Taisia Afonina, """"Spring day"""" by Sergei Babkov, """"Olkhon Island"""" by Dmitry Belyaev, """"Gavan district in winter"""" by Nikolai Galakhov, """"Bakhchysarai"""", """"In the town of Pechory"""" by Ivan Godlevsky, """"Little yard"""" by Vladimir Gavrilov, """"Boats"""", """"Pier"""", """"Factory backwater"""" by Vladimir Gorb, """"Winter etude"""" by Abram Grushko, """"On Onega Lake"""", """"Birches"""", """"In the foothills of the Tian Shan"""" by Alexei Eremin, """"Street in Znojmo town"""", """"Spit of Vasilievsky Island"""" by Mikhail Kaneev, """"Chersonesus"""" by Maria Kleschar-Samokhvalova, """"A Spring"""", """"A Winter"""" by Vladimir Konashevich, """"Cloudy day"""", """"Oats"""", """"Highway"""", """"Veranda"""", """"Fields"""" by Boris Korneev, """"The Leningrad"""","
"Alexey Ivanov-Classic Alexey Fyodorovich Ivanov (, 14 February 1841, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, — 15 January 1894, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian writer and poet, better known under his pen name Ivanov-Classic (Иванов-Классик). Having debuted as a published author in 1861 (""Peterburgsky Vestnik"", ""On the Death of Nikitin""), Ivanov was spotted by Vasily Kurochkin who invited him to become a major contributor to the ""Iskra"" magazine. It was there (as well as in ""Delo"", ""Zanoza"", ""Budilnik"", ""Oskolki"" and ""Vsemirnaya Illyustratsia"") that his numerous poems (he preferred to refer to as 'songs') were published to make their author one of the"
"calls his novels ""derivative and second-rate."" However, Dan Ungurianu writes, ""Despite their lack of conceptual and artistic integrity, Danilevsky's novels remain among the best works of historical fiction of the period."" Grigory Danilevsky Grigory Petrovich Danilevsky (; – ) was a Ukrainian historical novelist. Danilevsky is author of popular novel ""Beglye v Novorossii"" (Fugitives in New Russia, 1862). Born into the family of an impoverished landowner, Petr Ivanovich Danilevsky, in the Izyumsky district of Charkov, Grigory was educated in the Moscow ""Dvoryansky institut"" (Institute of the Nobility) from 1841 to 1846, then studied law at Saint Petersburg University. In 1849"
"Irving Greenfield Irving A. Greenfield (born 1929) is a humanities professor and the prolific author of over 300 novels. He is best known as the writer of ""Ancient of Days"" and ""Only the Dead Speak Russian"". Dr. Irving Greenfield was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 22, 1928. Graduating from Brooklyn College in 1950, Greenfield spent two years in the Merchant Marine and served during the Korean War in the combat infantry. He was later awarded a PhD for his work in fiction. For 18 years, Greenfield taught as an Associate Professor (Adjunct) at Wagner College in the Humanities"
"literature re-emerged, including the novel ""One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"" (1962), by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was code-named PAUK (""spider"") by the KGB. After Khrushchev's deposition in 1964, Leonid Brezhnev reverted the State and KGB to actively harsh suppression; house searches to seize documents and the continual monitoring of dissidents became routine again. To wit, in 1965, such a search-and-seizure operation yielded Solzhenitsyn manuscripts of ""slanderous fabrications"", and the subversion trial of the novelists Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel; Sinyavsky (alias ""Abram Tertz""), and Daniel (alias ""Nikolai Arzhak""), were captured after a Moscow literary-world informant told KGB when"
"The Life of Arseniev The Life of Arseniev () is an autobiographical novel by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin seen by many as his most important work written in emigration. ""The Life of Arseniev"" was being written and published in parts in the course of the 12 years, in 1927-1939, in France. In 1952 the New-York-based Chekhov Publishers released the first edition of the novel as a whole, entitled ""The Life of Arseniev. Youth"". The novel, subtitled ""The Outset of Days"" (Истоки дней) came out in four parts. Book I was finished on 21 September of that year."
"some old-fashioned stuff, churchy, silly, about religious processions and hearty Russian dishes. The audience was ecstatic and clapped."" But his rich prose and his deep roots in Russian culture won him many readers when he was finally published in his homeland. Fifty years after his death, in 2000, the remains of Shmelyov and his wife were transferred from the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery to the necropolis of Donskoy Monastery in Moscow. Ivan Shmelyov Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelyov (, also spelled ""Shmelev"" and ""Chmelov"") ( – 24 June 1950) was a Russian émigré writer best known for his full-blooded idyllic recreations of the"
"Oleg Pavlov Oleg Pavlov (Russian: Олег Олегович Павлов; 16 March 1970 – 7 October 2018) was a prominent Russian writer and winner of the Russian Booker Prize. His first novel, ""Captain of the Steppe"", has been translated into English and published by And Other Stories in 2013. Born in Moscow in 1970, Pavlov spent his military service as a prison guard in Kazakhstan. Many of the incidents portrayed in his fiction were inspired by his experiences there. During his service, Pavlov suffered a head injury, was hospitalised, and spent over a month in a psychiatric ward. This allowed him to"
"Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; Russian: , tr. ; ; ), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels ""War and Peace"" (1869) and ""Anna Karenina"" (1877), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, ""Childhood"", ""Boyhood"", and ""Youth"" (1852–1856), and ""Sevastopol Sketches"" (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens"
"Alexander Palm Alexander Ivanovich Palm (Александр Иванович Пальм, 2 February [o.s. 21 January] 1822, Krasnoslobodsk, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire, - 22 [o.s. 10] November 1885, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, who also used the pseudonym P. Alminsky. A member of the Petrashevsky Circle, Palm in 1847 was arrested, spent 8 months in the Petropavlovsk Fortress, had his death sentence changed to deportation and served 7 years in the Russian Army. Among his best known works are ""Alexey Slobodin. The History of One Family"" (1874, novel) and ""Our Friend Neklyuzhev"" (1879, drama). Alexander Ivanovich Palm"
"Ivan Bunin Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin ( or ; ; – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as ""Bunin brocade"", is considered to be one of the richest in the language. Best known for his short novels ""The Village"" (1910) and ""Dry Valley"" (1912), his autobiographical novel ""The Life of Arseniev"" (1933, 1939), the book of short stories ""Dark Avenues"""
"Fyodor Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (; ; 11 November 18219 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed works include ""Crime and Punishment"" (1866), ""The Idiot"" (1869), ""Demons"" (1872) and ""The Brothers Karamazov"" (1880). Dostoevsky's oeuvre consists of 11 novels, three novellas, 17 short stories and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychologists in world"
"controversial piece of writing. It wasn't published until 1924. Goncharov, who never married, spent his last days absorbed in lonely and bitter recriminations because of the negative criticism some of his work had received. He died in Saint Petersburg on 27 September 1891, of pneumonia. He was buried at the Novoye Nikolskoye cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. In 1956 his ashes were moved to the Volkovo Cemetery in Leningrad. Ivan Goncharov Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (; ; – ) was a Russian novelist best known for his novels ""A Common Story"" (1847), ""Oblomov"" (1859), and ""The Precipice"" (1869). He also"
"""One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"". ""A World Apart"" brought Grudziński international acclaim but also criticism from some Soviet sympathizers. The book was published in Russia in 1991, but in Italy in 1994 only (the first 1958 edition was unpopular). Commencing in 1971, Herling wrote a literary journal for the rest of his writing career, covering essays, criticism, anecdote, fiction, and memoir. The first three volumes were published consecutively in 1973, 1980, and 1984 in Paris and in Warsaw, as ""Dziennik pisany nocą"" (""Journal Written at Night""), which he maintained until his death. A selection from the ""Journal"
"Buchkin, """"Twilight"""", """"Bad weather"""" by Sergei Frolov, """"Karelia. A Warm winter"""", """"A Morning"""" by Nikolai Galakhov, """"Canary Islands"""" by Vladimir Gavrilov, """"Novgorod. Yaroslavovo Dvorishche"""", """"Pskov. Church of Michael Archangel"""" by Mikhail Kaneev, """"Autumn"""", """"Nida. In the dunes"""" by Victor Korovin, """"Backwater"""", ""Cowhouse"" by Mikhail Kozell, """"Early May"""" by Vladimir Krantz, """"Mountain pass"""" by Ivan Lavsky, """"Kola Bay"""" by Nikolai Mukho, """"Spring"""", """"Evening"""" by Mikhail Natarevich, """"A Midday"""", """"Ferriage in Old Ladoga"""" by Lev Orekhov, """"April"""", """"Gypsum plant"""" by Sergei Osipov, """"Volkhov River in evening"""", """"On the river"""" by Victor Otiev, """"Street in Pristannoye"""", """"Twilight"""", """"Torzhok"""" by Vladimir Ovchinnikov, """"Cēsis"""" by"
"English by Ian Appleby and published by independent London publisher And Other Stories in 2013. Oleg Pavlov Oleg Pavlov (Russian: Олег Олегович Павлов; 16 March 1970 – 7 October 2018) was a prominent Russian writer and winner of the Russian Booker Prize. His first novel, ""Captain of the Steppe"", has been translated into English and published by And Other Stories in 2013. Born in Moscow in 1970, Pavlov spent his military service as a prison guard in Kazakhstan. Many of the incidents portrayed in his fiction were inspired by his experiences there. During his service, Pavlov suffered a head injury,"
"same Russo-Turkish War setting of ""Four Days"", and includes as minor players the characters from ""Officer and Servant"". His best-known and most characteristic story is ""The Red Flower""; it fits in the series of lunatic-asylum stories in Russian literature (including Gogol's ""Diary of a Madman"" (1835), Leskov's ""Hare Remise"" (1894) and Chekhov's ""Ward No. 6"" (1892)). In 1883 Garshin was the model for the younger in Ilya Repin's painting ""Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan"". Vsevolod Garshin Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (); (14 February 1855 – 5 April 1888) was a Russian author of short stories. Garshin was the son"