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Daniil Kharms - (1905-1942) I love absurdist literature! He was the author of avant-garde poetry, short stories and plays until the late twenties, until the Stalinist regime ceased to tolerate such frivolity. Then he turned to children's stories, publishing for the magazine, "The Hedgehog" and "The Siskin". However, he could not seem to keep himself out politics. Even in his children's stories, he poked fun, covertly. Nonetheless, he was found out, and swiftly arrested for "distracting the people from the building of socialism by means of trans-sense verses". Read about Kharms here at the Intro of Serge Winitzki's website.
Nikolai Kluyev (1887-1937) - A peasant poet whose early enthusiasm for the Soviet press gave way to disillusionment. Arrested in 1933 and died in a prison camp.*
*(This information was found in a publisher's note,following Solzhenitsyn's "Letter to the Congress of Soviet Writers", nestled in a copy of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Bantam Books.)
