Novy Mir

{{Short description|Russian literary journal}} {{for|a Russian American publication|Novy Mir (1911 newspaper)}} {{Infobox magazine | logo = | logo_size =  | image_file = Новый мир (журнал).jpg | image_size =  | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = Andrei Vasilevsky  | editor_title =  | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = Literary magazine | frequency = Monthly | format = | circulation = | publisher = | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | circulation_year = | total_circulation = | founder = | founded = | firstdate = {{Start date|1925|1}} | finaldate = | finalnumber = | company = | country = Russia | based = Moscow | language = Russian | website =  | issn = | oclc = }} '''''Novy Mir''''' ({{langx|ru|Новый мир|lit=New World}}, {{IPA|ru|ˈnovɨj ˈmʲir|IPA}}) is a Russian-language monthly thick journal published in Moscow since 1925.<ref name=g2004/> It publishes prose, poetry, essays, memoirs, literary criticism, and articles on art, science, and philosophy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=О журнале |url=https://nm1925.ru/about/ |access-date=2026-03-13 |website=nm1925.ru}}</ref>

==History== ''Novy Mir'' has been published in Moscow since January 1925.<ref name=g2004>{{cite book|title=The Europa World Year: Kazakhstan - Zimbabwe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gP_-8rXzQs8C&pg=PA3566|access-date=27 July 2016|year=2004|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-85743-255-8|page=3566}}</ref><ref name=lud>{{cite journal|author=Ludmilla B. Turkevich|title=Soviet Literary Periodicals|journal=Books Abroad|date=Autumn 1958|volume=32|issue=4|pages=369–374|doi=10.2307/40097964|jstor=40097964}}</ref> It was modeled on the popular pre-Soviet literary magazine ''Mir Bozhy'' ("God's World"),<ref>[http://feb-web.ru/feb/litenc/encyclop/le7/le7-3321.htm Мир божий]</ref> which was published from 1892 to 1906, and its follow-up, ''Sovremenny Mir'' ("Contemporary World"),<ref>[http://www.booksite.ru/peri/s.htm Book site]</ref> which was published from 1906 to 1917.

Before 1960, ''Novy Mir'' mainly published prose that supported the general line of the Communist Party. Ivan Gronsky became editor-in-chief of the magazine in 1931, and he began the practice of printing a portrait of Stalin and a poem to his glory in almost every issue.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McSmith |first=Andy |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fear_and_the_Muse_Kept_Watch/ElxlCQAAQBAJ?hl=en |title=Fear and the Muse Kept Watch: The Russian Masters--from Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein--under Stalin |date=2015 |publisher=The New Press |isbn=978-1-59558-056-6 |language=en}}</ref> However, Gronsky was arrested in 1937 and replaced by Vladimir Stavsky.<ref>{{Cite web |title=История |url=https://nm1925.ru/about/history/ |access-date=2026-03-13 |website=nm1925.ru}}</ref> In the April 13, 1946, meeting of the Politburo, Joseph Stalin said ''Novy Mir'' was the USSR's worst literary magazine, beating out ''Zvezda'' for the top spot.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kutuzov |first=V. A. |date=2011 |title=А. А. Жданов и постановление ЦК ВКП(б) о журналах «Звезда» и «Ленинград» |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=100966 |journal=Новейшая история России |language=Russian |volume=1 |issue=01 |pages=146–152 |issn=2219-9659}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Иофе В.В. "К пятидесятой годовщине постановления ЦК ВКП(б) "О журналах "Звезда" и "Ленинград"" - Анна Ахматова "Ты выдумал меня..." |url=http://www.akhmatova.org/articles/articles.php?id=229 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222080811/http://www.akhmatova.org/articles/articles.php?id=229 |archive-date=2015-12-22 |access-date=2026-03-13 |website=www.akhmatova.org}}</ref> Between 1947 and 1991, the magazine was an organ of the Union of Soviet Writers.

In the early 1960s, ''Novy Mir'' changed its political stance, leaning to a dissident position. 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. In the same year its circulation was about 150,000 copies a month.<ref>{{cite book|title=Soviet Man and His World|year=1962|publisher=Praeger|location=New York|page=138|url=https://www.questia.com/read/316693/soviet-man-and-his-world|author=Klaus Mehnert|author2=Maurice Rosenbaum|access-date=|archive-date=2016-04-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408224813/https://www.questia.com/read/316693/soviet-man-and-his-world|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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, facing significant political pressure, resigned in February 1970. With the appointment of Sergey Zalygin in 1986, at the beginning of ''perestroika'', the magazine practised increasingly bold criticism of the Soviet government, including figures such as Mikhail Gorbachev. It also published fiction and poetry by previously banned writers, such as George Orwell, Joseph Brodsky and Vladimir 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== Today ''Novy Mir'' is 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, Aleksandr 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.<ref>[http://magazines.russ.ru/novyi_mi/2010/4/s20.html "Summary": In Novy Mir, 2010 (4).]</ref><ref>[http://magazines.russ.ru Журнальный зал (Zhurnal'nyj zal) Magazines]</ref>

==See also== * List of literary magazines

==Footnotes== {{Reflist}}

==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}}

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