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. It mainly published prose that approved of the general line of the Soviet Communist Party. A small controversy occurred only once, in 1945, when Novy Mir published an essay by Aleksandr Bek (1903-1972) which mentioned six different slang terms for Perineum.
In early 1960s the second Novy Mir changed its political stance. It took up the dissident tradition of the first Novy Mir. In November 1962 the magazine became famous for publishing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's groundbreaking One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a novella about a prisoner of the Gulag. The magazine kept publishing controversial articles and stories about various aspects of Soviet and Russian history until Tvardovsky's forced resignation in February 1970. With the appointment of Zalygin in 1986, i.e. at the beginning of the perestroika period, the magazine re-started increasingly bold criticism of the Soviet regime. It also published fiction and poetry by previously banned writers, the likes of George Orwell, Joseph Brodsky and Vladimir Nabokov.
Among the editors-in-chief of the second Novy Mir were the prominent Russian writers Alexander Tvardovsky (1950-1954 and 1958-1970), Konstantin Simonov (1954-1957) and Sergey Zalygin (1986-1998).
[edit] Notes
- ^ See "A Chronology" in Conversations in Exile: Russian Writers Abroad, ed. John Glad, Duke University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8223-1298-0 p.275
- Michael Glenny, Novy Mir. A Selection 1925-1967, Jonathan Cape, London, 1972. Review:
- Sheila Fitzpatrick (July 1975). "Novy Mir. A. Selection 1925-1967 by Michael Glenny". Soviet Studies 27 (3): 491–493.
