Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Stalin: art against totalitarianism Poet and "Manager". For the 20th century, in Russia, the textbook confrontation “Poet and Black”, “Pig and Crowd” is irrelevant. Even the poets who closed in an ivory closed in an ivory, if not the opinion of the people, then their suffering. Especially if the ivory tower is called the "booth" in Komarovo. Especially if suffering is associated with the Gulag.
