One Must Be Grateful to Fate. Diaries. Volume Two. 1930-1969

K. I. Chukovsky left a vast creative legacy, including journalism, translations, literary criticism, philological works, and memoirs; he is known to millions of readers as an author of works for children. The diaries that Chukovsky kept throughout his life are... also of great interest. This edition publishes entries from 1930 to 1969. Almost four decades encompass various periods in the history of the country and in the personal fate of the writer. The repressions of the 1930s, the war, the hardships of post-war life, the death of the nearest and dearest, creativity under harsh political censorship during the Stalin and post-Stalin eras — and global recognition... The diaries of Chukovsky trace key events in the lives of many of his remarkable contemporaries — Akhmatova, Zoshchenko, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky, and others.