Andrei Siniavsky, one of the most complex and controversial Russian literary and cultural figures of the latter half of the twentieth century, first came to prominence in the late 1950s as a liberal voice during the period of the Thaw, following Joseph...

After Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sinyavsky was the most famous Soviet dissident. His 1966 trial in Moscow for - with Yuli Daniel - publishing abroad "anti-Soviet" satirical stories became sensational. He was sentenced to seven years' hard labour; the occasion marked the beginning of the...

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