The McCarthy Era And the Beat Movement Seen Through Russian Eyes

... which was published by The New Republic . Aksyonov notes that the Beats (or Beatniks as he calls them) were not a target of the McCarthy era because they were a loose-knit group who had no political orientation. More importantly, Aksyonov suggests that McCarthyism ... ... 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 ...