Guards and Liberals: in a prolonged search for a compromise. Historical-literal research. In 2 volumes

For the first time, the idea of ​​the need to create a newspaper for Russian writers was expressed on May 13, 1957 Nikita Khrushchev at a meeting in the CPSU Central Committee. And now, maybe, then the Soviet leader was suggested, you need to think about some kind of body of writers of the Russian Federation that this body makes care of the cities of the Russian Federation, and to enable the RSFSR cities to influence Moscow, on the Moscow writers.
What happened from the idea of ​​Khrushchev, it was detailed in detail in the book of Vyacheslav Ogryzko "to hold or lick" and in the collection of documents, letters and memories" child of the Khrushchev thaw. Forehouse of "literary Russia". Both of these publications came out in 2012. The promising project, which began to be implemented in April 1958, by 1962 it turned out to be on the verge of failure. The newspaper, which had the name "literature and life", turned into, in fact, in the service of the bosses and received a contemptant nickname in the writer"s community.
Saved the writer"s publication at the end of 1962 reorganization in the weekly "Literary Russia". What did the weekly achieve the first ten years of its existence? What was the secret role of the main party ideologist Mikhail Suslov? How much Konstantin Simonov had a serious chance to head the newspaper? Why did Alexander Solzhenitsyn come to "LR"? Who was the first to publicly tried to rehabilitate Grigory Rasputin and what did it work out? Who expelled the Great Artists: CPSU Central Committee, KGB or Envious Graphs? Is it possible in the 60s to reconcile the fans and Westerners? To these and many other questions responded in their new historical and literary study, Vyacheslav Ogrezko