One Must Be Grateful to Fate. Diaries 1936 - 1969. Book 3

K. I. Chukovsky left a vast creative legacy, including journalism, translations, literary criticism, philological works, and memoirs. The diaries he kept throughout his life are also of great interest. This edition publishes the diaries from 1936 to 1969. Three decades cover various periods in the history of the country and in the personal fate of the writer. War, the death of his younger son, the hardships of post-war life, the death of his dearly beloved wife, the persecution of poets and writers during the Stalin and post-Stalin eras, creativity under strict political censorship — and global recognition... The diaries of Chukovsky trace key events in the lives of many of his outstanding contemporaries — Akhmatova, Zoshchenko, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky, and others.