Download or read book The Trial Begins written by Abram Tert︠s︡ and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-11-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abram Tertz, one of the most important writers to emerge in the Soviet Union since World War II, came to prominence in 1959 when On Socialist Realism was published in the West. It was the first important critique of the central dogma of Soviet literature. It arrived with a novel. The Trial Begins, which was published in 1960. Other books followed these into the West, until in 1965 a respected literary scholar at the Gorky Institute, Andrei Sinyavsky was arrested, revealed to be Abram Tertz, tried, and sentenced to seven years in a forced labor camp.