Sovremennye zapiski

Sovremennye zapiski

Publisher	Sovremennye Zapiski Publishing House
Country	France
Language	Russian

Sovremennye zapiski (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

Footnotes

1. Johnston, Robert H. (1982). "In Defence of the Defeated: Sovremennye zapiski and the February Revolution". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 24 (1). Canadian Association of Slavists: 11–24. doi:10.1080/00085006.1982.11091688. JSTOR 40859965.
2. "Sovremennye zapiski". Digital Library. The Nabokov Museum. Retrieved 11 December 2012.

Further reading

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