ABSTRACT
The first frank and open step in creating a Soviet party inquisition was the case against two writers, Andrei Siniavsky and Yuli Daniel. Siniavsky is a candidate of philological sciences, a senior research associate at the Institute of World Literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Union of Writers. Siniavsky’s “The Trial Begins” is full of hate for everything Soviet. It contains bitter attacks on the theoretical principles of Marxism-Leninism, the history of the Soviet state, and the culture and morals of the Soviet people. In 1956 Siniavsky began to write his libels. Siniavsky wrote works for Soviet publications that were fully loyal, articles about socialist realism, about the role of V. I. Lenin and Gorky in the development of literature on patriotic themes. And in foreign editions, under the pseudonym Abram Tertz, he wrote directly contradictory things.
