UDC

94(47).081

DOI

10.17238/issn2227-6564.2019.3.143

Authors

Oleg V. Zolotarev
Syktyvkar State University named after Pitirim Sorokin; Oktyabr’skiy prosp. 55, Syktyvkar, 167001, Respublika Komi, Russian Federation;
e-mail: kimoopd@syktsu.ru

Abstract

The review highly commends this book of memoirs by Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Irwin Weil. His research on Russian culture (“Russian Music in the Context of Russian Culture”) and the history of the Soviet Union (“Introduction to the USSR”) are fundamental. In his memoirs From the Cincinnati Reds to the Moscow Reds, Weil recalls Chukovsky, Brodsky, Yevtushenko, Pasternak, Shostakovich and many other grand figures of Russian culture. What is more, the memoirs describe the intellectual atmosphere in the Soviet Union.

Keywords

I. Weil, Soviet Union, Russian literature, international creative and academic contacts, Soviet intelligentsia