Which work contains Mandelstam's criticisms of Stalin?
The Moscow Notebooks
The Voronezh Notebooks
The Stalin Epigram
The Nikolayevsky Railway
Answer
The Stalin Epigram is a poem by Osip Mandelstam that criticizes Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Mandelstam wrote the poem in 1933, shortly after Stalin had ordered the execution of several of his former associates.
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