Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet Who Stirred a Generation of Soviets, Dies at 83

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Mr.
Yevtushenko tackled the issue in 1961 in blunt verse that stunned many Russians and earned him acclaim around the world.
Whenever Mr.
Yevtushenko recited the poem at public rallies, it was met with stunned silence and then thunderous ovations.
Mr.
Yevtushenko denounced the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968; interceded with the K.
G.
B.
But Mr.
Yevtushenko was not allowed to give a public reading of the poem in Ukraine until the 1980s.
After he praised ?Not by Bread Alone,? Dudintsev?s caustic 1956 novel about Soviet life, Mr.
Yevtushenko was expelled from the Literary Institute.