AUTHORS STUDIED (in the order we read them): Pushkin. Lermontov. Gogol. Fonvizin. Turgenev. Dostoevsky. Leskov. Chekhov. Garshin. Tolstoy. Gorky. Andreev. Bunin. Babel. Zamiatin. Polevoi. Platonov. Nagibin. Ilf and Petrov. Zoshchenko. Nabokov. Paustovsky. Kazakov. Solzhenitsyn. Trifonov. Shukshin. Bitov. Iskander. Aksenov. Aitmatov. Sokolov. Rasputin. Petrushevskaya. Tolstaya.
The New Sweet Style. An excerpt from Aksenov's novel.
Vasilij Aksenov. Novels. Stories. Misc. From Maksim Moshkow's site.
Vasily Aksyonov. General on him and his work, with a picture. From the "Russian PEN centre."
Vassily Aksyonov. Short blurb with a picture from Clarence J. Robinson, George Mason University.
America's Impact on Russia video transcript. Aksenov was one of those interviewed. From American Defense Monitor's home page. 1998 documentary.
Interview with Aksyonov about his book The Winter's Hero, which examines Cold War-era Russia in the 1950s. He and Robert also discuss the Soviet experience under communism and the future of Russia following Boris Yeltsin's re-election. (8 min. of real audio). From NPR "All Things Considered" 9/9/96.
The Artist and the Tyrant: Vasilly Aksenov's Works in the Brezhnev Era. Book blurb on Konstantin Kustanovich's book.
Vasily Aksenov. Review [in Russian] by Anton Dolin of Aksenov's book Novyj sladostnyj stil'.
Conversation with Vasily Aksenov. (In Russian transliteration) by A. Glezer. Posted on Moshkow's site.
The Jury: Vassily Aksyonov. Picture of Aksenov with a little bit about the author.
Writer Vasily Aksenov with artists Gennady and Elena Zolotnitsky. Washington 1996. Photo. Copyright by Gennady Krochik.
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