Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Part I: Literature of the Thaw Introduction Nikita Khrushchev Pyotr Vail’ and Alexander Genis Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Varlam Shalamov Vasily Grossman Vladimir Tendryakov Yulii Daniel (Nikolai Arzhak) Andrey Sinyavsky (Abram Tertz) Poetry of the 1960s Yevgeny Yevtushenko Andrei Voznesensky Alexander Galich Vassily Aksyonov Part II: Literature of the Stagnation Introduction Alexei Yurchak Joseph Brodsky Andrei Bitov Yurii Dombrovsky Neo-Classical Poetry Aleksandr Kushner Lev Losev Elena Shvarts Viktor Krivulin From Metropol’ Metropol’ Vladimir Vysotsky Yuz Aleshkovsky Genrikh Sapgir Viktor Erofeev Sergei Dovlatov Evgeny Kharitonov Venedikt Erofeev Dmitry A. Prigov Vladimir Shinkarev