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...Along with veteran Novelist-Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg. whose controversial memoirs were being serialized in the literary journal Novy Mir. Last week it was reported that the next issue would not carry the usual installment and that Novy Mir Editor Aleksandr T. Tvardovsky had been fired...
Nikita spared no group in the restless audience. Writer Ilya Ehrenburg, 72, drew scorn for the title of his 1954 novel, The Thaw, which, said Nikita, suggests political "impermanence and instability." As for Ehrenburg's memoirs, which have been running in the literary journal Novy Mir, Khrushchev remarked caustically, "one notices that he depicts everything in grim tones." Khrushchev warned the veteran Ehrenburg against "slipping into an anti-Communist position...
...important thing about Khrushchev's tirade last week was not so much that he denounced Yevtushenko and Ehrenburg, but that they both will most likely continue to endure and flourish. This is because they are political figures who made political mistakes and politics can be easily handled by the regime. Both Yevtushenko and Ehrenburg accept the framework of Societ society, and by accepting this framework they are assured personal security--and very limited influence...
...cannot see into the hearts of Yevtushenko and Ehrenburg and the other Soviet writers. One is tempted to set up the model of Pasternak, and say to them that that true dedication to art implies only one course of action. Indeed, a character in One Day known only as K-123 listens to a defense of the film producer Eisenstein, makes a disparaging comment, and is told "But what other treatment of the subject would have been let through...?" K-123 replies in a rage "Ha! Let through, you say? Then don't call him a genius! Call...
...cannot demand Pasternak's martyrdom from all artists, nor perhaps should we want to. Dr. Zhivago will remain an immortal book in the West, but it is inconceivable that it will be read in Russia in the near future. Yevtushenko and Ehrenburg might be toadies, and we might often find them despicable. Yet their dissent, no matter how veiled, will reach the Russian people. And their relentless pressure for new freedoms, no matter how hesitant, can produce an occasional "thaw," can help create a climate that will allow the publication of such works...