The McCarthy Era And the Beat Movement Seen Through Russian Eyes

... and the GULAG system in which he was forced to spend part of his youth. “ It's not out of place to remind those who bring up McCarthyism that the senator's committee didn't destroy a hundredth of the number of lives that our "organs" put away ... ... 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 ...