Forgetting Nothing, Forgetting No One: Boris Chichibabin, Viktor Nekipelov, and the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
Journal: The Modern Language Review
Year: 2011

After being ethnically cleansed from Crimea in May 1944, the Crimean Tatars were ‘‘discursively cleansed’ from Soviet life, subject to a co-ordinated campaign of censure and slander by the Kremlin. Poetry broke the tide of this discursive cleansing, exposing one of Stalin's greatest crimes and rousing the conscience of the Soviet reading public. The story of these poems has yet to be told. This article therefore centres on selected works by two understudied Russian-language poets of the Soviet p