Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny (1933– ), Russian poet who became a spokesperson for “liberal” forces in Soviet literature in the early 1960s. His best-known poems include “Babi-Yar” (1961), dealing with the Nazis' massacre of Soviet Jews in 1941, and “The Heirs of Stalin” (1962), warning of the persistence of Stalinism.