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Ivan Shevtsov

Ivan Shevtsov was a Soviet novelist, known in the West for the antisemitic aspects of his 1965 novel Aphid.

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Ivan Shevtsov (Russian: Иван Михайлович Шевцов; 1920–2013) was a Soviet novelist, known in the West for the antisemitic aspects of his 1965 novel Aphid.12

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  1. Soviet Fiction Since Stalin: Science, Politics and Literature – Page 56 0389206091, Rosalind J. Marsh – 1986 - ... Tvardovsky's dismissal as editor of Novy Mir in 1970 temporarily shifted the balance towards the dogmatists. The obscurantist Ivan Shevtsov, in his novel Love and Hate (1970), attempted to revive Stalinist attacks on new concepts in physics.
  2. Atlas – Page 59, 1970 – The campaign against Zionists hasn't flagged in years and the publication of Ivan Shevtsov's second novel, Love and Hate, is obviously part of that campaign. Though reviews of the brutal, Nazi-like narrative have been largely unfavorable in ...