Description
Bratsk Station and Other New Poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. An epic cycle of thirty-five poems about the building of hydroelectric power station at Bratsk in Siberia. Was a cause for great pride in Russia, coming out of the long Tsarist night and the privations of the war. Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a fourth-generation descendant of Ukrainians exiled to Siberia, was at first an honored poet in the Soviet system and considered something of a shill. Later, however, he faced criticism and more when he wrote Babi Yar and condemned the institutionalized anti-Semitism of the Soviet regime. His poems, shill or not, are lyric yet masculine, a delight to read and show the Russian love of poetry.
