The McCarthy Era And the Beat Movement Seen Through Russian Eyes

... been arrested had the liberalization that followed Stalin's death in 1953 not intervened. A spokesman for the rebels of Soviet Russia's 1960s generation Aksyonov has long been recognized as the leader of the Shestidesyatniki , the 1960s generation of writers,... ... 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 ...