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Literature and arts

141 people

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Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov Варлам Тихонович Шаламов The writer who testified to Kolyma through prose Literature and arts 1907–1982
Annamarie Doherr Annamarie Doherr The West German journalist whose question drew Ulbricht's 'No one intends to build a wall' Literature and arts 1909–1974
Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky Александр Трифонович Твардовский Novy Mir editor who opened the Thaw and national poet of Vasili Tyorkin Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1910–1971
Olga Fyodorovna Berggolts Ольга Фёдоровна Берггольц The radio voice of the besieged city Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1910–1975
Han Chae-dok 韓載德 Journalist who headed propaganda for the Pyongnam CPKI Literature and arts 1911–1970
Georgy Mokeevich Markov Георгий Мокеевич Марков The Brezhnev-era literary gatekeeper who celebrated Siberia while enforcing official aesthetics as head of the Writers' Union for 15 years Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1911–1991
Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov Анатолий Наумович Рыбаков The writer whose banned novel became the emblem of glasnost Literature and arts 1911–1998
Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov Тихон Николаевич Хренников Gatekeeper of Soviet music for 43 years Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1913–2007
Aimé Césaire Aimé Césaire Co-founder of Négritude, pioneering critic of colonialism Literature and arts · French Communist Party (PCF) 1913–2008
Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov Сергей Владимирович Михалков The poet who wrote the anthem for Stalin, Brezhnev, and Putin Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1913–2009
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański Jan Nowak-Jeziorański A Polish courier who connected resistance, exile, and radio Literature and arts 1914–2005
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov Константин Михайлович Симонов The poet of 'Wait for Me': six-time Stalin Prize-winning war correspondent and literary bureaucrat Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1915–1979
Miklós Gimes Gimes Miklós Reform communist journalist executed alongside Imre Nagy Literature and arts · Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 1917–1958
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Александр Исаевич Солженицын Prisoner Shch-854, who told the world about the Archipelago Literature and arts 1918–2008
Alexander Yefimovich Vorontsov Александр Ефимович Воронцов A frontline cameraman who recorded liberation Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1919–1991
Tố Hữu Tố Hữu Revolutionary poet laureate who, as the Party's ideology chief, policed its writers Literature and arts · Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 1920–2002
Balázs Nagy Nagy Balázs The exile historian of workers’ councils Literature and arts 1920–2003
Tengiz Evgenyevich Abuladze თენგიზ ევგენის ძე აბულაძე Georgian film director whose Repentance fired the cultural starting gun of glasnost Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1924–1994
Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho Angolan nationalist and writer 'Uanhenga Xitu', a nursing auxiliary turned minister Literature and arts · Independent activity 1924–2014
Ruth First Ruth First The investigative journalist who exposed apartheid, the communist revolutionary who endured 117 days of solitary confinement Literature and arts · African National Congress (ANC) 1925–1982
Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky Андрей Донатович Синявский Abram Tertz, from Novy Mir critic to symbol of the Soviet dissident movement Literature and arts 1925–1997
Pramoedya Ananta Toer Pramoedya Ananta Toer The Buru Island novelist who composed a tetralogy by mouth, eight-time Nobel nominee Literature and arts 1925–2006
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva Светлана Иосифовна Аллилуева Stalin's only daughter and the Kremlin's first insider witness to defect to the West Literature and arts 1926–2011
Ludvík Vaculík Ludvík Vaculík The Czech writer who declared 'not one human question has been solved in twenty years' and authored the 'Two Thousand Words' manifesto Literature and arts · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1926–2015
Peter Fryer Peter Fryer A communist journalist who chose the scene over the party line Literature and arts · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1927–2006
Chinghiz Torekulovich Aitmatov Чингиз Торекулович Айтматов Kyrgyz writer and diplomat who carved a Central Asian voice into world literature Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2008
Milan Kundera Milan Kundera The Czech novelist who insisted the Prague Spring was a universal attempt to reconcile socialism with freedom Literature and arts · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1929–2023
Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev Егор Владимирович Яковлев Editor of Moscow News who led the charge in breaking Soviet taboos during the glasnost era Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1930–2005
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kosygin Владимир Владимирович Косыгин First professional Koryak writer and USSR People's Deputy Literature and arts 1933–2012
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko Евгений Александрович Евтушенко A poet in Russia is more than a poet: the stadium-filling voice of the Thaw and its contradictions Literature and arts 1933–2017
Heinz Valk Heinz Valk The artist who gave the Singing Revolution its name Literature and arts 1936–
Václav Havel Václav Havel Czech playwright-turned-president whose absurdist theater critiqued the regime and whose dissident leadership ended communist rule Literature and arts 1936–2011
Vitaly Alekseevich Korotich Виталий Алексеевич Коротич The editor who turned Ogonyok into the battering ram of glasnost, publishing what the system suppressed for seventy years Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1936–2025
Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik Андрей Алексеевич Амальрик Historian and playwright who foresaw the Soviet collapse by 1984 Literature and arts 1938–1980
Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky Владимир Семёнович Высоцкий The voice the state silenced, but a million tapes couldn't Literature and arts 1938–1980
Nikolai Nikolayevich Gubenko Николай Николаевич Губенко The last Soviet culture minister Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1941–2020
Aleksei Polyansky Алексей Полянский The KGB-veteran writer who published Yezhov's case file wrapped in novelistic reconstruction Literature and arts 1947–1998
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich Святлана Александровна Аляксандраўна Алексіевіч A writer who recorded the Soviet century through voices of testimony Literature and arts 1948–
Andris Slapiņš Andris Slapiņš A documentary filmmaker who recorded Latvia's independence struggle from the ground Literature and arts 1949–1991
Alo Mattiisen Alo Mattiisen The composer whose five 'Fatherland' songs became the emotional engine of the Singing Revolution Literature and arts 1961–1996
Ilya Maratovich Krichevsky Илья Маратович Кричевский The architect and poet shot dead rushing a BMP as the troops pulled back, the last of the coup's three martyrs Literature and arts 1963–1991

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