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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin -great 19th century satirist, whose novel, A Modern Idyll, plucked at the insecurity and closeted lives of the intelligentsia under czarist rule.
Taras Shevchenko - famous Ukranian poet.
Mikhail Sholokov (1905-1984)- Nobel Prize-winner for literature in 1965. Author of And Quiet Flows the Don, a novel depicting the life of the Cossacks. Sholokov was an affirmed Communist, and self-proclaimed "Soviet writer".
Biographical Information from the Pegasos Literature Website
Vasily Makarovich Shukshin - (1929-1974) Important Soviet writer of the 1960's-1970's. Filmmaker, Actor and author, but short stories were his forte. Born in a Siberian village, his work reveals his struggle between his peasant origins and his place among the Moscow intellectuals. Andrei Sinyavsky -literary critic and dissident satirist. Exiled in the latter half of this century.
Aleksandyr Solzhenitsyn -Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Gulag Archipelago, which revealed Soviet secrets about torture methods in and facts about the Stalinist prison camps. He spent eight years in Siberia,then exiled to Zurich, for publishing this and other censored texts which exposed the horrors that the Soviet government didn't want the world to know about. His other works include Cancer Ward,
