You need to be a grateful fate. Diaries of 1930-1969. Book 2. Chukovsky K.

K. I. Chukovsky left an extensive creative heritage, including journalism, translations, literary criticism, work on philology, memoirism; It is known to millions of readers as the author of works for children. Of great interest are the diaries that Chukovsky led all his life. This edition publishes records of 1930-1969. Almost four decades cover various periods in the history of the country and in the personal fate of the writer. The repressions of the 1930s, the war, the hardships of the post-war life, the death of the closest people, the work in conditions of strict political censorship in the Stalin and post-Stalin era-and world recognition... By Chukovsky’s diaries, key events are traced in the life of many outstanding contemporaries-Akhmatova, Akhmatova, Zoshchenko, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky, etc.