Ana Akhmatova writes that although horrors threaten us, “cherries blow summer into town.”
Tag Archives: Gulag
Akhmatova’s Response to Despair
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The Novel that Upended the USSR
Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” so effectively aided Khrushchev’s destalinization project that it would be banned by Brezhnev.
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