Haight, Amanda. Anna Akhmatova : A Poetic Pilgrimage. Oxford University Press, 1976.
175-6, 181
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politics | Anna Akhmatova | In February of 1917 the unrest in Petrograd reached its extremest point: crowds of workers gathered to protest against food shortages. During these turbulent times, AA
was staying at Valeriya Sreznevskaya
's house at a... |
politics | Anna Akhmatova | The late 1920s and middle 30s were marked by massive repressions and imprisonments undertaken by the Communist
regime now headed by Joseph Stalin
. Battered by the arrests of Osip Mandelstam
, a fellow writer... |
Reception | Anna Akhmatova | Between 1924 and 1925 AA
's poetry faced controversy: while some critics placed her in the forefront of women poets in Russia, others blamed her for being un-Soviet, a representative of the long-gone pre-revolutionary... |
Textual Features | Lesley Storm | This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess
and Donald Maclean
, who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist
Russia... |
Textual Features | Gillian Slovo | When Irina returns as a bit-part heroine from facing death in the Arctic, Boris finds her a job as housekeeper to his friend Anton Antonovich, a university intellectual, who has taken in a destitute orphan... |
Textual Production | Anna Akhmatova | Another collection of AA
's poetry, Poems 1909-1960 (in Russian Stikhotvoreniia, 1909-1960), appeared in a form heavily censored by the Communist Party
. Haight, Amanda. Anna Akhmatova : A Poetic Pilgrimage. Oxford University Press, 1976. 175-6, 181 |
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