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The McCarthy Era And the Beat Movement Seen Through Russian Eyes

... president Trump recalling names like Shine, Cohn, and Browder, publications are buzzing up the meme that we're living in a new McCarthy era. It is not surprising since McCarthyism is associated with the use of unfair allegations and investigations, smear ... ... watched it happen? After all, western media rarely examines McCarthyism from the Russian viewpoint. This can be learnt from Vassily Aksyonov's, November, 1987 essay “Beatniks and Bolsheviks, rebels with (and without) a cause” which was published ...

24.12.2018

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