Summary
Anna Akhmatova: Secrets of the Craft
Recording through her poetry much of Russia's unfortunate experiences in the 20th century, Anna Akhmatova became the voice of humanity in a world of turmoil and war. Her poems are testimony and prophecy at the same time...
In the years marked by wars, revolutions and persecutions, Ana Akhmatova was one of the few poets who chose to stay in Russia rather than emigrate. Often banned from the Soviet Union as a decadent and individualistic bourgeois, she became famous in her homeland and the world with poems in which she spoke out against the cruelty of the Stalinist regime, determined not to leave the tragedy of her people to the oblivion of time.
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