{{Short description|Russian political journal}} {{About|the political journal|the luxembourgish band|Kontinent (band)}} {{Italic title}} [[File:Russia House and 2031-2033 Florida Avenue, N.W..jpg|thumb|Former Washington, D.C. office of ''Kontinent'']] '''''Kontinent''''' was an émigré dissident journal which focused on the politics of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Founded in 1974 by writer Vladimir Maximov,<ref name="T">Tatyana Shvetsova. [http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=2465&cid=125&p=13.07.2006 After word to the epoch of Nikita Khrushchev] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927152311/http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=2465&cid=125&p=13.07.2006 |date=2007-09-27 }} </ref><ref name="m">PAUL GRAY. THE SEVEN DAYS OF CREATION by Vladimir Maximov. ''Time'', May 29, 2007, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121017122252/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946489,00.html?iid=chix-sphere]</ref><ref>Ecrivain russe: MAXIMOV Vladimir, 1930-1995 (in French) http://www.lescimetieres.com/Photos/ailleurs/RusseEssonne/MAXIMOV%20Vladimir.htm</ref><ref>Максимов Владимир Емельянович (Самсонов Лев Алексеевич) (1930—1995), texts by Maximov, available online (in Russian) http://antology.igrunov.ru/authors/maximov/</ref> its first editor-in-chief, it was published in German and Russian and later translated into English. A Norwegian edition, ''{{ill|Kontinent Skandinavia|no}}'', was published from 1979 to 1981.
Its Editorial Board at various times included Raymond Aron, George Bailey, Saul Bellow, Józef Czapski, Robert Conquest, Milovan Djilas, Alexander Galich, Jerzy Giedroyc, Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Eugène Ionesco, Arthur Koestler, Naum Korzhavin, Mihajlo Mihajlov, Ludek Pachman, Andrei Sakharov, Alexander Schmemann, Ignazio Silone, Joseph Brodsky.
This initial issue featured a debate between Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn regarding Solzhenitsyn's ''Letter to the Soviet Leaders'' (q:ru:Письмо вождям Советского Союза<ref>[http://antology.igrunov.ru/authors/solzh/letter-to-leaders.html ПИСЬМО ВОЖДЯМ СОВЕТСКОГО СОЮЗА]</ref>).
==Current status== ''Kontinent'' continues to be published in English and Russian by Russia House. Currently, the editorial is located at Moscow, registered in the committee on the printed materials of the Russian federation, registration license no. 014255.{{cn|date=January 2024}} The Russian version has been available online since 1999.<ref name="k">[http://e-continent.de/ Russian version of ''Kontinent'' online]</ref>
==See also== *''Kultura''
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://magazines.gorky.media/continent.html Issues of ''Kontinent'' available online (1998-2013)] *[https://archive.org/details/kontinent0000unse English-language anthology drawn from Vols. I and II of ''Kontinent'']
==Further reading== * Vladimir E. Maximov, editor, ''Kontinent'', Anchor Books (1976), trade paperback, 196 pages, {{ISBN|0-385-06611-2}} * Vladimir E. Maximov, editor, ''Kontinent 2'', Doubleday (1977), trade paperback, {{ISBN|0-385-12579-8}}
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