Recordings from the Central State Archive of Phonorecords of the USSR, the Phonotheque of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on Television and Radio Broadcasting, and the Phonetics Office of the All-Union Bureau of Propaganda of the USSR Writers’ Union have been used.
Recordings from 1940–1973 (including author’s readings).
The poems are performed by the Author, Kindinov, Kvasha, Schwartz, Konsonsky, Sorokin, Ilyinsky, Lazarev, Kachalov, Zhuravlev, Yakhontov, Smolensky, Aksenov, Kairanskaya, Simonov.
Memories, speeches, and reports — A. Fadeev, A. Mayakovskaya, K. Chukovsky, V. Shklovsky, N. Hikmet, N. Aseev, L. Kassil, I. Ilyinsky, A. Surkov.
Articles by N. Tikhonov and V. Karsov are read by T. Ivanova.
Contents:
Record 1
1. Listen!
2. Listen!
3. And could you?
4. Take that!
5. A violin and a bit nervously
6. A cloud in trousers
7. Hymn to the Judge
8. Flute—vertebrae
9. A good attitude toward horses
10. Left march
11. An extraordinary adventure
12. Those who sit to decide
13. About this
14. Anniversary
Record 2
1. V.I. Lenin
2. If you exhibited it in a museum
3. Conversation with the finance inspector about poetry
4. Tamara and the demon
5. Brooklyn Bridge
6. Kemp “Night Geydayge”
7. Little philosophy in deep places
8. Six nuns
9. Beauties
10. The City
11. To Comrade Nette—the steamboat and the man
12. Conversation on the Odessa raid
Record 3
1. To our youth
2. Yevpatoria
3. General guidance for beginner flatterers
4. Pillar
5. Coward
6. Licker
7. Conversation with Comrade Lenin
8. A story about Kuznetskstroy
9. Great! Chapter 6
10. Great! Chapter 18
11. Great! Chapter 19
12. Poems about a Soviet passport
13. All out loud
Record 4 (recollections)
1. A. Fadeev
2. A. Mayakovskaya
3. K. Chukovsky
4. V. Shklovsky
5. N. Hikmet
6. N. Aseev
7. L. Kassil
8. I. Ilyinsky
9. A. Surkov
Articles by N. Tikhonov and V. Karsov.