To the dissidents of the Soviet Union, that question was so relevant ... poet turned logician broke with the system after his poetry and outspokenness landed him first in prison, then in a ...

It was Kuznetsov’s second prison sentence in Soviet Russia after being sentenced to seven years in 1961 for reading anti-Soviet poems in public ... anti-Soviet dissident Eduard Kuznetsov dies ...

His book, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement is a finalist for the 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize, presented by the Munk School of Global Affairs ...

Artyom Kamardin read a poem criticising Russia's war in Ukraine in September 2022 Two Russian poets have been ... as an unprecedented crackdown on dissent in Russia. A third poet who had taken ...

After the USSR collapsed, Rubinstein shot to prominence and saw his work widely published by leading Russian publishing houses. He was invited to international poetry festivals and his works were ...

and the Russian Empire before it, had a long history of repressing writers, who often doubled as dissidents. Poet Alexander Pushkin was exiled by Tsar Alexander I for his poem "Ode to Liberty".

MOSCOW: Poet Lev Rubinstein, a key figure of the Soviet underground literary scene ... The poet had created his own genre, between poetry and theatre, by writing short sentences on perforated ...

Two Russian poets have been handed long ... recited a poem at the Mayakovsky Readings - a poetry event that has attracted dissidents and activists to Triumfalnaya Square - formerly Mayakovsky ...