ABSTRACT
Iuliia Voznesenskaia is a Russian poet and novelist who has lived in Germany since she was exiled by the Soviet government. In addition to her writing, Voznesenskaia has been involved in social causes. In the late 1960s especially after the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and in the 1970s she was active in the dissident movement. In 1976 she and her friends were imprisoned for planning to publish a satirical political journal that they intended to call Red Dissident. In prison she wrote The White Daisy, about women in labor camps-the first work, she reports, in which she wrote specifically about women. Upon her return to Leningrad, resolved to work for changes in the treatment of women in labor camps, she was invited by Natal'ia Malakhovskaia to join her, Tat'iana Mamonova, and Tat'iana Goricheva in launching a feminist journal. In the fall of 1979 they brought out the first feminist journal in the Soviet Union, Woman and Russia. As a result Voznesenskaia was expelled from the country in May 1980; the other three women followed shortly (Morgan 51-54). In emigration Voznesenskaia has published poetry and two novels, The Women's Decameron (Damskii Dekameron) in 1986 and The Star Chernobyl (Zvezda Chernobyi') in 1987. The Women's Decameron especially repays analysis.
