Emblematic works of this period include the essay “On Sincerity in Literature” and a poem in which a telephone line hooked up to a coffin floats out of a silent room of glass and marble. Movements that began during this broader period include the SMOG group, the “author songs” of the guitar poets, and the Village Prose style. This period’s namesake “generation” of poets gained fame from readings in a square named for a poet who had shot himself 30 years earlier. This period got its name from the title of a novel by the co-author of the Black Book, Ilya Ehrenburg. The ending of this period is typically marked by the Sinyavsky–Daniel Trial, which ushered in a crackdown on samizdat authors. For 10 points, Novy Mir’s publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was allowed during what period of relaxed censorship under Khrushchev? ■END■
ANSWER: Khrushchev Thaw [or De-Stalinization or word forms; or ottepel; or destalinizatsiya; accept First Thaw or Second Thaw; prompt on Khrushchev era until “Khrushchev” is read; prompt on post-Stalin era, Soviet era, Cold War, or equivalents of any] (Clues include Vladimir Pomerantsev, “The Heirs of Stalin” by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and the Mayakovsky Square poetry readings.)
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