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Nikolai Gogol -famed author of Dead Souls and Taras Bulba. "Read Gogol- by all means Gogol! When he was writing Dead Souls, Gogol read the manuscript to Pushkin, who at first laughed and laughed- and then grew thoughtful, and came close to tears. That's Gogol." (Quoting Maya Plisetskaya)
Maxim Gorky - "father of Socialist Realism" and author of Lower Depths, The Life of a Useless Man, Mothers, Foma Gordeyev, and many short stories.
Aleksandr Grin (1880-1932) - popular author of fantastic tales, found by offical Soviet critics to be out of line with the Soviet era.*
Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) - novelist whose war novel For the Just Cause (1952), about the battle of Stalingrad, was offically criticised in the last years of the Stalin era, for not being sufficiently party-oriented.*
Nikolai Gumilev (1886-1921) - Poet of the Acmeist school, noted for clarity and concreteness of imagery. He was executed on charges of anti-Soviet plotting.*
*(This information was found in a publisher's note,following Solzhenitsyn's "Letter to the Congress of Soviet Writers", nestled in a copy of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Bantam Books.
