Novy Mir
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Novy Mir (rus. Новый Мир - "New World") is the title of two separate Russian language magazines.
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[edit] Novy Mir, New York
The first Novy Mir was published by Russian social democratic émigrés in New York City in 1916–1917 until their return to Russia after the February Revolution of 1917. It was edited by Nikolai Bukharin and Alexandra Kollontai, who were briefly joined by Leon Trotsky when he arrived in New York in January 1917. V. Volodarsky, then living in Philadelphia, was one of the contributors .
[edit] Novy Mir, Moscow
The second Novy Mir is an influential monthly literary magazine which has been published in Moscow since January 1925. It was supposed to be modelled on the popular pre-Soviet literary magazines Mir Bozhy (God's World)[2], which was published in 1892-1906, and Sovremenny Mir (Contemporary World), [3] which was published in 1906-1917.
Among Novy Mir's editors-in-chief were prominent Russian writers Alexander Tvardovsky (1950-1954 and 1958-1970), Konstantin Simonov (1954-1957) and Sergey Zalygin (1986-1998).
The magazine is famous for publishing Alexander Solzhenitsyn's groundbreaking One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich about the Gulag in November 1962. It continued publishing controversial articles and stories about Soviet history until Tvardovsky's forced resignation in February 1970. With the appointment of Zalygin in 1986 at the beginning of the perestroika period under Mikhail Gorbachev, the magazine again published increasingly bold criticism of the Soviet regime as well as stories and poetry by previously banned writers like George Orwell, Joseph Brodsky and Vladimir Nabokov.
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- ↑ See "A Chronology" in Conversations in Exile: Russian Writers Abroad, ed. John Glad, Duke University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8223-1298-0 p.275
