Iz tsikla ‘Slava miru’ 

…Little Light”) under the title Iz tsikla “Slava miru” (“From the Cycle ‘Glory to Peace’ ”). This uncharacteristic capitulation to the Soviet dictator—in one of the poems Akhmatova declares: “Where Stalin is, there is Freedom, Peace, and the grandeur of the earth”—was motivated by Akhmatova’s desire to propitiate Stalin and…