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The Writers and The Snitchers: The history of literary denunciations (Russian Edition)
The Writers and The Snitchers The history of literary denunciations - Russian Edition Author:Vladimir Kolganov Denunciations were very popular in the USSR. Some people sent messages to KGB, and literary critics wrote spiteful articles in which accused writers of crimes against the Soviet power. Isaak Babel, Osip Mandelstam, Boris Pilnyak and many other writers became the victims of false denunciations. Names of some snitchers were published only recently... more » ? the author told about it in the heads devoted to Andrey Sinyavsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and George Orwell. False charges of plagiarism were brought against Mikhail Bulgakov and Mikhail Sholokhov. In total about fifty famous writers and critics are mentioned in this book. The author was guided by exclusively good intentions ? to justify unfairly accused or to find additional proofs for a sentence which was pronounced to the snitcher by the literary public.« less