Frida Vigdorova
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Frida Abramovna Vigdorova (16 March 1915, Orsha – 7 August 1965) was a Soviet journalist, novelist and writer. She is mostly known for her record of the trial of poet Joseph Brodsky in 1964.
Biography
[edit]Vigdorova graduated from Moscow Pedagogic Institute. She was the author of a number of books on issues in education, including Diary of a Russian Schoolteacher (1954).[1] She worked as a correspondent for Literaturnaya Gazeta.[2]
In 1964, Vigdorova took notes during the trial of poet Joseph Brodsky, convicted for "social parasitism".[3] Compiled without censorship, Frida Vigdorova's account circulated in samizdat and made its way to the West.[4]
Further reading
[edit]- Alexandra Raskina. Frida Vigdorova's Transcript of Joseph Brodsky's Trial: Myths and Reality // «Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography», No. 7 (2014), pp. 144–180.
- Vigdorova, Frida; Katz, Michael R. (2014). "The Trial of Joseph Brodsky" (PDF). New England Review. 34 (3–4): 183–207. doi:10.1353/ner.2014.0022. ISSN 2161-9131. S2CID 153474011. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
- Mayofis, Maria (2015). ""Individual Approach" as a Moral Demand and a Literary Device: Frida Vigdorova's Pedagogical Novels". Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas. 13 (1): 19–41. doi:10.1353/pan.2015.0007. ISSN 1936-9247. S2CID 144915761. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
References
[edit]- ^ "What's a Woman to Think?". Seventeen Moments in Soviet History. 2015-06-19. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
- ^ Vigdorova, Frida; Katz, Michael R. (2014). "The Trial of Joseph Brodsky" (PDF). New England Review. 34 (3–4): 183–207. doi:10.1353/ner.2014.0022. ISSN 2161-9131. S2CID 153474011. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
- ^ Ėtkind, E. G. (1978). Notes of a non-conspirator. Oxford [Eng.]; New York: Oxford University Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-19-211739-7.
- ^ Grudzińska-Gross, Irena; Grudzińska-Gross, Irena (2009). Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: fellowship of poets. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-300-14937-1.
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