Aleksander Yashin

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Soviet writer and author of the controversial short story "Vologda Wedding." The story provoked a series of opinion pieces in the Soviet journal Literaturnaia gazeta.[1] Yashin was associated with a movement in Soviet literature called Village Prose.

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  1. ^ A. Bersenev, “To A. T. Tardovskky, Editor-in-Chief of Magazine Novyi Mir.,” CDSP XV no5 (p31-32), “From members of the agri.artel Homeland Collective Farm, village of Bludnovo, Permassk Rural Soviet, Nikolsk District, Vologda Province, 15 Feb 1963,” reprinted in Aleksandr Yashin, “A Village Meeting Writes,” Literaturnaya gazeta, No. 444, 1 Nov/CDSP Vol. XIX No.46, p11+37; Aleksandr Yashin, “A Village Meeting Writes,” Literaturnaya gazeta, No. 444, 1 Nov/CDSP Vol. XIX No.46, p11+37