SMOG (Russian: СМОГ) was one of the earliest informal literary groups independent of the Soviet state in the post-Stalin Soviet Union

1.   SMOG (Society of Youngest Geniuses) was one of the earliest informal literary and political  independent from the official authorities groups of young people in Moscow. This group was organized in in 1965. They  issued several samizdat collections and a magazine “Sphynxes". Samizdat was a key form of            unofficial activity. Individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader. KGB arrested the members of samizdat.

2.   The SMOG group was under big pressure of  KGB and many members of this group were arrested in 1966 and 1967.

SMOG (Russian: СМОГ) was one of the earliest informal literary groups independent of the Soviet state in the post-Stalin Soviet Union. Among the several interpretations of the acronym are Smelsot', Mysl', Obraz i Glubina (Courage, Thought, Image and Depth), and, humorously, Samoe Molodoe Obshchestvo Geniev (Society of Youngest Geniuses).^[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMOG_(literary_group)

It was organized in January/February 1965 by a group of young poets and writers: Poet Leonid Gubanov (initiator, membership card #1), writer and editor Vladimir Batshev (membership card #2), poet and publicist Yuri Kublanovsky, Vladimir Aleynikov, a poet who received the Andrei Belyi prize; and poets Nikolai Bokov, Arkady Pakhomov, later joined by several dozens of others.^{[3][4][5][6]:15}

The group carried out public reading of poetry and issued several samizdat collections and a magazine Sfinksy ("Sphynxes"). In 1965, they revived the literary meetings at Mayakovsky Square (Mayakovsky Square poetry readings).^[7]

Some of the members also helped organize the unsanctioned 1965 glasnost rally calling for a legal trial of writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel.^[8]:13–14

The group was under the pressure of the state. The last poetry reading took place on April 14, 1966.

References[edit]

1. Jump up^ Or: Szhatyj Mig Otrazhennoi Giperboly (Condensed Moment of Reflected Hyperbole). 'Smog' is also a past tense of the verb 'to be able to', yielding 'I was able to', or 'I did it'. Kravchenko, E. I. (2013). The Prose of Sasha Sokolov: Reflections on/of the Real. MHRA texts and dissertations. London: Modern Humanities Research Association. ISBN 978-1-907322-52-5., p. 15
2. Jump up^ An interview with Kublanovsky
3. Jump up^ Диссиденты о диссидентстве. «Знамя». — М., 1997, № 9
4. Jump up^ Виктория Андреева , SMOG
5. Jump up^ Сенкевич А. Показания свидетелей защиты: Из истории русского поэтического подполья 1960-х. М., 1992г.; Алейников В. Смелость, Мысль, Образ, Глубина // Другое искусство (as cite in [1])
6. Jump up^ Kravchenko, E. I. (2013). The Prose of Sasha Sokolov: Reflections on/of the Real. MHRA texts and dissertations. London: Modern Humanities Research Association. ISBN 978-1-907322-52-5.
7. Jump up^ Sundaram, Chantal (2006). ""The stone skin of the monument": Mayakovsky, Dissent and Popular Culture in the Soviet Union". Toronto Slavic Quarterly (16).
8. Jump up^ A. Roginskii, A. Danielʹ; et al., eds. (2005). 5 dekabria 1965 goda: v vospominaniiakh uchastnikov sobytii, materialakh samizdata, publikatsiiakh zarubezhnoii pressy i v dokumentakh partiinykh i komsomolʹskikh organizatsii i v zapiskakh Komiteta gosudarstvannoi beznopasnosti v TsK KPSS (in Russian). Moscow: Memorial: Zvenʹia. ISBN 5787000862.

Bibliography[edit]

• Aleinikov, Vladimir (2004). Golos i svet, ili SMOG – samoe molodoe obshchestvo geniev. XX vek: liki, litsa, lichiny (in Russian). Moscow: Zvonnitsa-MG. ISBN 5-88093-133-1.
• Aleinikov, Vladimir (2008). SMOG: Roman-poema (in Russian). Moskva. ISBN 978-5-94282-468-6.
• Batshev, Vladimir (2009). SMOG: Pokolenie s perebitymi nogami (in Russian). USA: Franc-Tireur. ISBN 978-0-557-13929-3.

External links[edit]

• Сурикова, Ольга (2013-03-26). "К вопросу об истории СМОГа" [On the question of the history of SMOG]. gefter.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2015-12-02.