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Week Fourteen

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--The Thaw and Stagnation

Links:

Britannica's entries Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev

Sputnik

Yuri Gagarin

Leonid Brezhnev

Andrei Sakharov

Optional:

Yuri Gagarin's Life in Pictures

Nikita Khrushchev and the Cuban Missile Crisis

"Khrushchev's Decline and Fall"

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--Literature and Culture in the Sixties and Seventies

Links:

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Yevgeny Yevtushenko (A brief biography)

Yevtushenko's "The Execution of Stenka Razin" 

Yevtushenko's "Babi Yar"

An Article about "Babi Yar"

Works by Ernst Neizvestny:

"Head"
"Mask in Hand"
"Heart of Christ"

Optional:

Notes

Some poems by Joseph Brodsky

Some Poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"Loss" a Recent Poem by Yevtushenko

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--Guitar Poetry

Links:

Alexander Galich

Bulat Okudzhava

Novella Matveeva

Vladimir Vysotsky

Vladimir Vysotsky Biography

Vysotsky's Grave

Vysotsky Video Clips

Optional:

The Bards Page from Little Russia in US.com

The "Official" Vysotsky Page (Mostly in Russian with some materials in other languages)

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