Item COLD WAR 28/57 - Transcript of interview with poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko, 1997

Typescript transcript of interview with Yevgeni (Aleksandrovich) Yevtushenko, Soviet poet and critic of the Soviet regime, 1955-1990, relating to the Moscow youth Festival, 1957; censorship in the USSR, 1917-1990; the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968; the character and leadership of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953-1964; the impact of Yevtushenko's poetry on the youth of the USSR and the reaction of the Soviet authorities, 1955-1962; Yevtushenko's reaction in [1956] to the news of the existence of the Soviet Gulag labour camps following the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 1953; Khrushchev's support for the doctrine of social realism in art and his rejection of abstract art, 1963; the trial and imprisonment in the USSR of Yuli Markovich Daniel (pseudonym Nikolai Arzhak) and Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (pseudonym Abraham Tertz), charged with anti-Soviet propaganda for the publication of satirical short stories in the West, 1966; the influence of the life of Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960, on other Soviet writers and poets, and the importance of the publication of Doctor Zhivago (Feltrinelli, Milan, Italy, 1957) in the West, 1957, and in the USSR, 1988; the event, in Yevtushenko's opinion, that signified the end of the Cold War, the speech by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, to a forum of international intellectuals, stating that human values were above politics and the class struggle, [1989]; the influence of the Cold War on Soviet culture and society, 1945-1989; Khrushchev's decision to authorise the Soviet publication of One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, 1962, and The Heirs of Stalin (1961) by Yevtushenko, 1961. 49pp