The McCarthy Era And the Beat Movement Seen Through Russian Eyes

... been recognized as the leader of the Shestidesyatniki , the 1960s generation of writers, artists, and musicians who came of age in the Soviet Union during a brief period of relaxed ideological control known as the Khruschev-era Thaw. The work of the Beat movement writers (he calls them Beatniks) started having an impact on Soviet youth at that time. Aksyonov published the first of many short stories in 1959, and a year later published his first novel, 'Kollegi' (1960; 'Colleagues'), which appeared ...