The McCarthy Era And the Beat Movement Seen Through Russian Eyes

... number of lives that our "organs" put away in a single day.” Why Aksyonov matters alless.su Vassily Aksyonov, 1961 Vassily Aksyonov was and remains one of the most controversial and popular Soviet era writers. His life, particularly the period ... ... age in the Soviet Union during a brief period of relaxed ideological control known as the Khruschev-era Thaw. The work of the Beat movement writers (he calls them Beatniks) started having an impact on Soviet youth at that time. Aksyonov published the first ...