SOURCE: Bailey, Sharon M. “An Elegy for Russia: Anna Akhmatova's Requiem.” Slavic and East European Journal 43, no. 2 (summer 1999): 324-46.
In the following essay, Bailey defines Akhmatova's Requiem as an elegy of mourning, particularly giving voice to the grief of the women whose loved ones were imprisoned or executed during the years of Stalinist rule in the Soviet Union.
