Esenin-Volpin

[June Farris]

Dear Professor Yatsenko,



I checked the Library web page at Portland State and confirmed that you have access to the database "WorldCat" through which your student can do an author search under Esenin-Volpin and see which books of his (in English, Russian and German) are held by North American libraries. He/she can then request those books of interest on Interlibrary Loan.



I found the following articles about Esenin-Volpin:



Sviridova, Alexandra. "Living in Lawlessness." In: East European Constitutional Review 7, 1 (1998): 71-75.

Contribution to the feature, "Citizen and Law after Communism," in this issue of East European Constitutional Review. "In 1992 I made a television film about an extraordinary man: poet, mathematician, and dissident Alexander Esenin-Volpin, who drove the ruling order crazy simply by appealing to the law. Esenin had taken the trouble to read and study the Stalinist constitution, and he declared it beautiful. The problem was that no one used it-neither Stalin nor the people. Esenin decided to give it a try. Supported only by the law, he wrote a memorandum titled "How to Behave During Interrogations," which was used in the early 1960s by all dissidents who anticipated arrest. Never did I think that I would be using it thirty years later in the "new" Russia." The author then describes her battles with passport officials at the Russian consulate in New York and border guards at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport.



Tosurian, Irina. "Esenina ona liubila: No menia liubila-bol'she." In: Literaturnaia gazeta 4, 5586 (Jan 24, 1996): 6. [interview with Esenin-Volpin]



And this wiki article on Esenin-Volpin has some external links with both biographical information and text of document, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Esenin-Volpin



Best,

June Farris



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Dear Colleagues, A student of mine has been working on the political texts

of Alexander Sergeyevich Esenin-Volpin, a notable dissident, political

prisoner, poet, and mathematician, who lives in the United States since

1972. We are searching for the scholarly works and researches about

Esenin-Volpin and his texts or poems. Any suggestions will be very much

appreciated. Thank you,

Anna Yatsenko



Assistant Professor of Russian Department

Portland State University

Phone: 503.725.5282

Fax: 503.725.5276

E-mail: yatsenko at pdx.edu



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