The 1963 publication of E.A. Evtušenko’s autobiography in French and English translations was an event of literary and political significance. Soviet writers, critics, and party workers erupted with these publications and called Evtušenko a “traitor” and a “misinterpreter of Soviet reality...

This photostat enables the Western Russicists to acquire the text, now out of print, published in the Moscow review Novyj Mir in November 1962. Two English translations are already available (Alexander Solzhenitsyn...