Novy Mir 16 Issues.

1974 volume 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 - 9,10,11,12 missing #8

1972 volume 1,2,3,4,5

1978 volume 9,10

Novy mir is one of the oldest monthly literary magazines in modern Russian. It has been published in Moscow since January 1925. It’s base was Izvestiya publishing house, and in the first year it was edited and supervised by A.V. Lunacharsky and Yu. Steklov. At first, Novy Mir mainly published prose that approved of the general line of the Communist Party. In the early 1960s, it changed its political stance, leaning to a dissident position. The words ‘‘Novy mir’’, ‘‘Tvardovski’s magazine’’ became symbolic, causing delight and respect among some readers, and gnashing of teeth among others (especially in official instances). A lot has been written about those years, about that edition, its fate, including on the pages of the magazine. Tvardovski’s Novy Mir is one of the brightest pages in the history of Russian journalism. Tvardovski-editor became one of the most remarkable journalistic figures not only of the Soviet period. The magazine’s active position in literary and social issues (expressed, of course, to the extent possible due to censorship harassment) in the 60s provoked both an open heated debate in the press and a tough backstage fight. 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 (later all Solzhenitsyn’s works were banned and the writer was removed from the USSR). 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.