23. Platonov: Vospominaniia sovremennikov, p. 69.
24. Znamia, 6 (2002), p. 159.
25. Platonov: Vospominaniia sovremennikov, p. 85.
26. Pravda, July 8, 1943.
27. Literaturnaia gazeta, January 4, 1947.
28. Platonov: Vospominaniia sovremennikov, p. 84.
Chapter Nine
1. See http://idf.ru/15/doc.shtml
2. Literaturnoe nasledstvo, vol. 84, book 1, pp. 53–54.
3. M. Iof’ev, Profili iskusstva [Profiles of art] (Moscow, 1965), p. 205.
4. Znamia, 7 (2004), p. 153.
5. Moskovskie Novosti, September 24, 2004.
6. Vlast’ i khudozhestvennaia intelligentsia, p. 583.
7. Milovan Djilas, Besedy so Stalinym [Conversations with Stalin] (Moscow, 2002), p. 119.
8. Vlast’ i khudozhestvennaia intelligentsia, p. 491.
9. Ibid., p. 488.
10. Den’ poezii [Poetry day] (Leningrad, 1967), p. 169.
11. Istochnik, I (1999), p. 77.
12. Anna Akhmatova v zapisiakh Duvakina [Anna Akhmatova in the notes of Duvakin] (Moscow, 1999), pp. 312, 330.
13. Anna Akhmatova, Requiem (Moscow, 1989), p. 294.
14. D. L. Babichenko, Pisateli i tsenzory [Writers and censors] (Moscow, 1994), p. 47.
15. Ibid., p. 48.
16. Anna Akhmatova in conversation with the author.
17. Anna Akhmatova in conversation with the author.
18. “Literaturnyi front.” Istoriia politicheskoi tsenzury 1932–1946 g. [“The literary front”: the history of political censorship 1932–1946] (Moscow, 1994), p. 53.
19. Solomon Volkov, Dialogi s Iosifom Brodskim [Dialogues with Joseph Brodsky] (Moscow, 1946), p. 13.
20. Ibid., p. 7.
21. Cited in Akhmatova, Requiem, p. 174.
22. Doklad t. Zhdanova o zhurnalakh “Zvezda” i “Leningrad” [Comrade Zhdanov’s report on the journals Zvezda and Leningrad ] (Moscow, 1946), p. 13.
23. Ibid., p. 7.
24. Druzhba Narodov, 3 (1988), p. 174.
25. Anna Akhmatova in conversation with the author.
26. Prokof’ev o Prokof’eve. Stat’i i interv’u [Prokofiev on Prokofiev: articles and interviews] (Moscow, 1991), p. 220.
27. Sergei Prokofiev, Dnevnik. 1907–1933 [Diary: 1907–1933], part 2 (Paris, 2002), p. 292.
Part Four: THAWS AND FREEZES
Chapter Ten
1. Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Volchii pasport [Wolf’s passport] (Moscow, 1998), p. 81.
2. Armen Medvedev, Territoriia kino [Cinema territory] (Moscow, 2001), p. 41.
3. Yevtushenko, Volchii pasport, p. 435.
4. Vassily Aksyonov, V poiskakh grustnogo bebi [In Search of Melancholy Baby] (New York, 1987), p. 20.
5. G. V. Aleksandrov, Epokha i kino [The era and film] (Moscow, 1976), p. 107.
6. Sochineniia Iosifa Brodskogo [Works of Joseph Brodsky], vol. 6 (Moscow, 2000), p. 16.
7. Aksyonov, V poiskakh grustnogo bebi, p. 20.
8. Joseph Brodsky in conversation with the author.