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    Boris Andreyevich Pilnyak (né Vogau Russian: Бори́с Андре́евич Пильня́к; October 11 [O.S. September 29] 1894 – April 21, 1938) was a Russian and Soviet...
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    of such Russian Soviet writers as Isaac Babel, Osip Mandelstam and Boris Pilnyak and poets Vladimir Mayakovsky and Sergei Yesenin. He is remembered as...
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    starvation, examples being Daniil Kharms, Osip Mandelstam, Isaac Babel and Boris Pilnyak. Andrei Platonov worked as a caretaker and was not allowed to publish...
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    the 1920s, when such behavior led the Soviet State to declare war on Boris Pilnyak and Evgeny Zamyatin. Pasternak, however, believed that Feltrinelli's...
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  • Revolution, but which is not, at the same time, the Art of the Revolution. Boris Pilnyak, Vsevolod Ivanov, Nicolai Tikhonov, the Serapion Fraternity, Yesenin...
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    novelists Yuri Olesha (1899–1960), Andrei Platonov (1899–1951) and Boris Pilnyak (1894–1938) and the short-story writers Isaak Babel (1894–1940) and...
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    Pantserzhanskiy Karl Pauker Dmitry Pavlov Jēkabs Peterss Osip Piatnitsky Boris Pilnyak Yevgeny Polivanov Yakov Popok Bronislava Poskrebysheva Nikolay Rattel...
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  • ideological grounds. Among the first targets were Yevgeny Zamiatin and Boris Pilnyak. Soon the concept of socialist realism was established, as the officially...
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  • Vesyoly 8 Panteleimon Romanov 21 Sultan Majid Afandiyev, Oskari Ikonen, Boris Pilnyak, Huseyn Rahmanov, Kustaa Rovio, Suren Shadunts 23 Kasyan Chaykovsky...
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    before the dish is first known to have been recorded. Soviet writer Boris Pilnyak visited the pub during his stay in London in 1923. He later wrote a...
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    Bolshevik Party. Among its first targets were Yevgeny Zamyatin and Boris Pilnyak and both pro and anti-Bolshevik writers were targeted, notably including...
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    organization". On 27 January 1940, he was shot in Butyrka prison. Writer Boris Pilnyak was arrested on 28 October 1937 for counter-revolutionary activities...
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    colony were poet Boris Pasternak, writers Korney Chukovsky, Isaac Babel, Alexander Serafimovich, Leonid Leonov, Ilya Ehrenburg, Boris Pilnyak, Vsevolod Ivanov...
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  • Time: Night Valentin Pikul (1928–1990), novelist, At the Last Frontier Boris Pilnyak (1894–1938), novelist, The Naked Year Dmitry Pisarev (1840–1868), critic...
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  • Nestor Makhno Grigorii Maksimov Sergey Nechayev Stepan Petrichenko Boris Pilnyak Dmitry Ivanovich Popov Victor Serge Leo Tolstoy Volin Land and Liberty...
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    against the writers Yevgeny Zamyatin, who was driven into exile, and Boris Pilnyak, and the Old Bolshevik and critic, Aleksandr Voronsky, founder of the...
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  • Marge Piercy Arturo Uslar Pietri Rosamund Pilcher Nicholas Pileggi Boris Pilnyak Robert Pinsky Harold Pinter Luigi Pirandello Sylvia Plath Andrei Platonov...
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    sister, Kira (1908–1960), also became an actress and married the writer Boris Pilnyak. Although several versions of her discovery for the film exist, the...
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    publication abroad in 1929 of the banned novel Mahogany, whose author, Boris Pilnyak, was subjected to public vilification, which was interpreted as a threat...
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    but were not hostile to the regime, such as Boris Pasternak, Alexei Tolstoy, Sergei Yesenin, Boris Pilnyak, Konstantin Fedin, Vsevolod Ivanov, and Leonid...
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    Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Boris Pilnyak, Ivo Andrić and Miroslav Krleža among other authors. In 1976, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich was published. Kiš...
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  • literature. It also drew favourable attention from Mikhail Bulgakov, Boris Pilnyak, and Isaac Babel. The film was shot in the political climate of the...
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    his military doctrine. One author even ranks him next to Clausewitz. Boris Pilnyak's story "The Tale of the Unextinguished Moon" was based on Frunze's death...
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  • Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel Nicolette: A Tale of Old Provence Boris Pilnyak – The Naked Year Marcel Proust – Sodome et Gomorrhe II (volume 4 part...
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    writer Boris Pilnyak, who was the target of a campaign by the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP). In 1930 Gronsky persuaded Pilnyak to write...
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     1993)​ Partner Konstantin Kuperveys (1973-1991) Children 1 Relatives Boris Pilnyak (father-in-law) Angelina Stepanova (mother-in-law) Alexander Fadeyev...
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    1922). Two years later, when captured by the Bolsheviks, Eser conspirator Boris Savinkov allegedly confessed that he intended to have both Rakovsky and...
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  • Valentine Katayev (1928, 1935) The Volga Falls to the Caspian Sea by Boris Pilnyak (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1931) The Little Golden Calf by Evgeny...
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  • encountered each other at the Metropolitan Club at a dinner honoring Boris Pilnyak. After much drinking, Lewis rose to give the welcome speech, but instead...
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    Pavel Florensky, Maxim Gorky, Nikolai Klyuev, Ossip Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, Boris Pilnyak and Marina Tsvetaeva. They contain longer extracts from snitch...
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