Fifty years after the Soviet regime cracked down totally on its creative artists, the combination of perestroika and his own initiative gave Vitaly Shentalinsky the chance to find out what really happened to Stalin's writer-victims and to relaim their stolen words. Shentalinsky went into the KGB's archives and brought to light the tragic stories of many great writers and a number of important works, including Bulgakov's diary, the final text of Mandelstam's lampoon on Stalin, poems prophetic of ecological disaster by Nikolay Klyuev and a previously unknown novel by Andrey Platonov.
- ISBN10 1860460720
- ISBN13 9781860460722
- Publish Date 16 November 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint The Harvill Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English