Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-dh8gc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-06T06:09:53.342Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Writers Under the Heirs of Stalin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Abraham Rothberg
Get access

Extract

The lash—

a medicine,

although it isn't exactly honey.

The foundation of the state

is direction,

direction.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Remembering the role writers and intellectuals played in the Hungarian revolt of 1956 and in the Czechoslovak liberalization from 1966 to 1968, the Soviet authorities are determined to see that Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's works, as well as those of a number of other Soviet writers, bring neither increased turbulence at home nor decreased prestige and power for the Soviet Union and its leadership abroad.

Type
Research Article
Information
Worldview , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , February 1972 , pp. 41 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1972

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1. Amalrik, Andrei, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? (New York: Harper and Row, 1970), p. 35 Google Scholar.

2. Pastemak himself seems to have shared that “passive submissiveness to blind elemental power” that Max Hayward so astutely remarked of his creations in Doctor Zhivago. See Hayward's “Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago,” Encounter (May, 1948), p. 44-

3. L'Unità (October 22, 1957); as quoted in Conquest's, Robert The Pasternak Affair; Courage of Genius (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1962), p. 66 Google Scholar.

4. Benno, Peter, “The Political Aspect,” in Soviet Literature in the Sixties, Hayward, Max and Crowley, Edward L., eds. (London: Methuen, 1965), p. 179 Google Scholar.

5. Pravda (April 22, 1962).

6. Pravda (October 21, 1962); as translated in the Current Digest of the Soviet Press (October 31, 1962), p. 5.

7. (New York: Dutton, 1963), p. 17.

8. “Khrushchev and the Intellectuals,” East Europe (February, 1964), p. 13.

9. Benno, p. 184.

10. Werth, Alexander, Russia; Hopes and Fears (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969), p. 188 Google Scholar.

11. A Precocious Autobiography, p. 89.

12. Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?, p. 6.

13. Ibid, p. 33.

14. P. 42.

15. A Precocious Autobiography, p. 39.

16. Ibid., p. 42.

17. Richard Pipes, “Russia's Exigent Intellectuals,” Encounter (January, 1964), p. 84. Pipes's is an excellent and wry essay on the traditional roles and functions, strengths and weaknesses, of the Russian intelligentsia.