Poems of Emigration: "Simply People Who Couldn't Think as Instructed"

Blog: Reason.com

Abstract

Russian history has produced a subgenre of poems and songs about emigration (something American history has fortunately been largely spared). I blogged in March about Yevgeniy Kliachkin's "Farewell to the Motherland," and I also like the great Bulat Okudzhava's poem that begins, How good it is that Zworykin left And invented television there If he…