Boris Slutsky was born in the Ukraine in 1919. Between 1941-1945 he served in the Red Army, his war experiences colouring much of his poetry. After the war he worked on the radio (1948-1952). In 1956 Ehrenburg created a sensation with an article quoting a number of hitherto unpublished poems by Slutsky, and in 1957 Slutsky's first book of poetry, Memory, comtaining many poems written much earlier, was published. Slutsky was probably the most important representative of the war generation of poets and, because of the nature of his verse, a crucial figure in the post-Stalin literary revival. His poetry is deliberately coarse and jagged, prosaic and conversational. There is a dry, polemic quality about it that reflects perhaps the poet's early training as a lawyer. Slutsky's search was evidently for a language stripped of poeticisms and ornamentation; he represented the opposite tendency to that of such neo-romantic or neo-futuristic poets as Voznesensky. Slutsky died in 1986. 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the armed forces of the Soviet Union. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (ИльÑÌ Ð“Ñ€Ð¸Ð³Ð¾Ìрьевич ÐренбуÌрг) (January 27, 1891–August 31, 1967) was a Soviet Jewish writer and journalist whose 1954 novel gave name to the Khrushchev Thaw. ... Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 1879[1] – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Slutsky's external conformism masked an increasing distrust of the slogans and stereotypes of official ideology.
The poems are arranged so as to combine with Slutsky's memoirs and the editor's commentary in presenting a biographical survey of the poet's life and the times he lived through.
In his memoirs Slutsky recalls, for example, that the officially trumpeted heroism of tank crews who burned to death in their tanks was in reality often motivated by fear of the punishment meted out to those who allowed equipment to fall into enemy's hands.
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