Sovremennye zapiski explained

Language:	Russian
Publisher:	Sovremennye Zapiski Publishing House
Country:	France

(Russian: Современные записки, "Contemporary Papers") was a politicized literary journal published from 1920 to 1940.^{[1] [2]} A group of adherents of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party launched the journal during the Russian Civil War.

Headquartered in Paris, Sovremennye zapiski published the poetry, fiction, and articles of Russian emigrants, many of them highly respected writers and philosophers.

It is one of several Russian journals that published the early fiction of Vladimir Nabokov; Nabokov's novel Despair was first serialized in Sovremennye zapiski.

Featured titles

• Vladimir Nabokov
  • Despair
  • Laughter in the Dark
  • The Gift
• Ivan Bunin
  • Mitya's Love
  • The Life of Arseniev
• Andrei Bely
  • The Baptized Chinaman
• Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  • Sisters (first part of The Road to Calvary)

See also

• February Revolution
• October Revolution
• Russian diaspora

Further reading

• M.V. Vishniak, Sovremennye zapiski: Vospominaniia redaktora. (Sovremennye zapiski: Reminiscences of an Editor). St. Petersburg, Russia: Logos, 1993.

Notes and References

1. Johnston . Robert H. . 1982 . In Defence of the Defeated: Sovremennye zapiski and the February Revolution . Canadian Slavonic Papers . 24 . 1 . 11 - 24 . Canadian Association of Slavists . 10.1080/00085006.1982.11091688 . 40859965 .
2. Web site: Sovremennye zapiski . Digital Library . The Nabokov Museum . 11 December 2012.