Joan Delaney Grossman

Khrushchev's anti‐religious policy and the campaign of 1954

(1973). Khrushchevs anti‐religious policy and the campaign of 1954. Soviet Studies: Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 374-386.

Leadership of antireligious propaganda in the Soviet Union

Re-emergent scientific atheism bears the marks of its historical origins in the efforts of Bonč-Bruevič and Jaroslavskij. The disciples of the ‘Lenin generation’ use their ‘fathers’ somewhat as ‘second-level classics’.

Ivan Konevskoi: Bogatyr of Russian Symbolism

The accidental drowning of Ivan Konevskoi in 1901 at the age of twenty-three left Russian Symbolism with the small icon for which Valerii Briusov provided the inscription: ‘Wise child’.1 The posthumous volume of Konevskoi’s writings edited by Briusov and published by Scorpio was meant to fix his image in the memory of his generation, and it succeeded in doing so, at least for an important few: Blok, Belyi, Ivanov, along with Briusov and Bal’mont. His reputation was still alive a decade and more later and his importance to poets of a new generation is attested.2 Vladimir Gippius passed on recollections of his boyhood friend to his pupil Osip Mandelstam, as the latter remembered in The Noise of Time.3 Yet another few years, and D.S. Mirsky could call Konevskoi ‘one of the esoteric classics of Russian poetry’, destined to emerge repeatedly as ‘a poet’s vademecum’.4