You need to be grateful to fate. Diaries. Book Two. 1930-1969

K. I. Chukovsky left a vast creative legacy, including journalism, translations, literary criticism, philological works, memoirs; to millions of readers, he is known as the author of children's works. The diaries that Chukovsky kept throughout his life are also of great interest. This edition publishes entries from 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, war, the hardships of post-war life, the death of the closest people, creativity under the harsh political censorship of the Stalinist and post-Stalinist era—and world recognition... Chukovsky's diaries trace key events in the lives of many of his outstanding contemporaries—Akhmatova, Zoshchenko, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky, and others.