The jail sentences imposed in 1966 by a Soviet court on the novelist and critic Andrej Sinjavskij and his less well known friend and associate Julij Danièl’ probably brought to a close two of the most interesting careers in the history of Soviet literature...

When the almanac Vozdushnye puti first made its appearance in 1960, it immediately became a subject of much discussion among persons interested in Russian literature. While it featured a number of valuable contributions by émigré writers and critics...