Less concerned w/private lives. Oxymoron wanted them to be integrated, but discrimination caused preservation. Until 67, mostly like other people. 66, foreign minister[?] in France, 66 will let family reunions take place in 2 years or so, when requests rise. Weren't many requests. 1000 a year. Let leaders leave, movement won't last. Then tens of thousands, surprise. Govt not ready, slow. 1 April Transition from Stalin to Stagnation, Khrushchev and the Thaw Babi Yar poem[?], Yevtushenko, shook govt to core. Avant garde. Shostakovich involved. Trying to keep things open. Trying to cope with past. Babi Yar kolmkend neli. Töötasid koos? Dimensions big. Shastakovich, symphony 34. From above vs below. SU whatever state says, goes; monolithic. This, however, is nonsensical. Beria, KGB head, repudiated Doctor's Plot. Beria the one political victim of this period. July 53. Diplomatic relations w IL reinstated. Cut off Feb 53, bomb in
Pasternak was forced to refuse his Nobel prize. Meanwhile, émigré writers, such as poets Vladislav Khodasevich, Georgy Ivanov and Vyacheslav Ivanov; novelists such as Mark Aldanov, Gaito Gazdanov and Vladimir Nabokov; and short story Nobel Prize winning writer Ivan Bunin, continued to write in exile. The Khrushchev Thaw brought some fresh wind to literature. Poetry became a mass cultural phenomenon: Bella Akhmadulina, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Andrei Voznesensky, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko, read their poems in stadiums and attracted huge crowds. Some writers dared to oppose Soviet ideology, like short story writer Varlam Shalamov and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who wrote about life in the gulag camps, or Vasily Grossman, with his description of World War II events countering the Soviet official historiography. They were dubbed "dissidents" and could not publish their major works until the 1960s. But the thaw did not last long
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