Novy Mir

For a Russian American publication, seeNovy Mir (1911 newspaper).

Novy Mir

Editor	Andrei Vasilevsky
Categories	Literary magazine
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	January 1925(1925-01)
Country	Russia
Based in	Moscow
Language	Russian

Novy Mir(Russian:Новый мир,lit. 'New World',IPA:[ˈnovɨjˈmʲir]) is a Russian-language monthlyliterary magazine.

History

Novy Mirhas been published in Moscow since January 1925.It was supposed to be modelled on the popular pre-Sovietliterary magazineMir Bozhy( "God's World" ),which was published from 1892 to 1906, and its follow-up,Sovremenny Mir( "Contemporary World" ),which was published from 1906 to 1917.Novy Mirmainly published prose that approved of the general line of theCommunist Party.

In the early 1960s,Novy Mirchanged its political stance, leaning to adissidentposition. In November 1962 the magazine became famous for publishingAleksandr Solzhenitsyn's groundbreakingOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,a novella about a prisoner of theGulag.In the same year its circulation was about 150,000 copies a month.The magazine continued publishing controversial articles and stories about various aspects of Soviet and Russian history despite the fact that its editor-in-chief,Alexander Tvardovsky,facingsignificant political pressure,resigned in February 1970. With the appointment ofSergey Zalyginin 1986, at the beginning ofperestroika,the magazine practised increasingly bold criticism of theSoviet government,including figures such asMikhail Gorbachev.It also published fiction and poetry by previously banned writers, such asGeorge Orwell,Joseph BrodskyandVladimir Nabokov.

Editors-in-chief

• Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov(1925–1926)
• Vyacheslav Polonsky(1926–1931)
• Ivan Gronsky(1931–1937)
• Vladimir Stavsky(1937–1941)
• Vladimir Shcherbina (1941–1946)
• Konstantin Simonov(1946–1950)
• Alexander Tvardovsky(1950–1954)
• Konstantin Simonov (1954–1957)
• Alexander Tvardovsky (1958–1970)
• Valery Kosolapov (1970–1974)
• Sergei Narovchatov(1974–1981)
• Vladimir Karpov(1981–1986)
• Sergey Zalygin(1986–1998)
• Andrei Vasilevsky (1998- )

Contemporary authors

TodayNovy Miris considered a leading Russian literary magazine and has a liberal orientation.

In the 2000s, the following authors have been published:Maxim Amelin,Arkadi Babchenko, Dmitry Bak, Vladimir Berezin,Dmitry Bykov,Dmitry Danilov, Vladimir Gandelsman,Alisa Ganieva,Alexander Ilichevsky,Alexander Karasyov,Leonid Kostyukov,Yuri Kublanovsky,Alexander Kushner,Yulia Latynina,Vladimir Makanin,Anatoly Nayman,Yevgeni Popov,Zakhar Prilepin,Valery Pustovaya, Sergey Soloukh,Andrei Volos,Oleg Yermakov and others.

See also

• List of literary magazines

Further reading

• Edith Rogovin Frankel,Novy Mir: A Case Study in the Politics of Literature, 1952-1958.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Michael Glenny,Novy Mir. A Selection 1925-1967.London:Jonathan Cape,1972.

External links

• Official website