Communist Party of the Russian Federation

In February of 1917 the unrest in Petrograd reached its extremest point: crowds of workers gathered to protest against food shortages. During these turbulent times, AA was staying at Valeriya Sreznevskaya 's house at a...

The late 1920s and middle 30s were marked by massive repressions and imprisonments undertaken by the Communist regime now headed by Joseph Stalin . Battered by the arrests of Osip Mandelstam , a fellow writer...

Between 1924 and 1925 AA 's poetry faced controversy: while some critics placed her in the forefront of women poets in Russia, others blamed her for being un-Soviet, a representative of the long-gone pre-revolutionary...

This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist Russia...

When Irina returns as a bit-part heroine from facing death in the Arctic, Boris finds her a job as housekeeper to his friend Anton Antonovich, a university intellectual, who has taken in a destitute orphan...

Another collection of AA 's poetry, Poems 1909-1960 (in Russian Stikhotvoreniia, 1909-1960), appeared in a form heavily censored by the Communist Party .