ABSTRACT
The task was entrusted to Veniamin Kaverin, who in 1967 had fervently supported Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the latter's protest against censorship of the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers. The congress examined problems ranging from the destruction of nature to nationality conflicts, from shortcomings in the teaching of literature in schools to falsification of the election results in the Union of Writers. The problem of censorship was raised at the congress not only by isolated "individuals" but also by such establishment figures as the first secretary of the Moscow Writers' Organization, Feliks Kuznetsov, the party poet Robert Rozhdestvenskii, and the chairman of the State Publishing Commission, Mikhail Nenashev. Poet Evgenii Evtushenko presented the presidium of the congress with an appeal signed by forty delegates calling for the creation of a museum devoted to the poet Boris Pasternak in his house in Peredelkino.
