Guard of Soviet literature. Writing and holidays from thaw to perestroika. Vaskin A.A.

The new book of Alexander Vaskina talks about the wonderful time when our country was considered not only the most reading in the world, but also the most writing. For no other state of officially recognized writers lived in any other state - almost ten thousand people: poets, prose writers, playwrights, scriptwriters, translators, and critics.

The life of Soviet writers was extremely exciting and intense - they worked in the houses of creativity, were treated in Littlefond clinics, spent honestly earned fees, received honored bonuses and orders, went on business trips around the country and abroad. They also handed the housewarming in the so -called writer's houses, rested at the dachas, sat at congresses and in the CDL restaurant. This is an interesting story about the everyday life and holidays of Soviet writers, about their life from a thaw to perestroika (1950-1980s), in which there was enough space for both humor and sadness.

The book is based on archival documents and evidence of eyewitnesses, a number of which are published for the first time.