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THE WALKER'S PLEASURE.(poem)
From: Quadrant
Date: 19990401
Author:RYAN, PETER
Why on earth, over the last few days, has the name of Maxim Gorky kept leaping unbidden into mind? You may be certain that it was unbidden, This old apparatchik became Stalin's cultural hatchetman. His job was to keep all Soviet authors, poets, painters, sculptors and composers singing the same tune, which was: "All hail our beloved leader Comrade Stalin." Gorky's track record asa bumlicker was impressive, but he wasn't altogether a bad sort; his personal interventions from time to time with Stalin saved several Russian writers from the gulag or the gallows. In the mercifully ...
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