Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich

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Russian poet. He aroused controversy with his anti-Stalinist ‘Stalin's Heirs’ (1956), published with Khrushchev's support, and ‘Babi Yar’ (1961), which attacked Russian as well as Nazi anti-Semitism. His other works include the long poem Zima Junction (1956), the novel Berries (1981), and Precocious Autobiography (1963).

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