Abstract:
The collection includes articles and publications of documents from the collections of the Department of Manuscripts, the Archive of A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the State Archive of the Russian Federation. The publications are devoted to the financial and ideological aspects of the historical and literary process of the first half of the 20th century and they cover the activities of writers and critics (L.N. Andreev, D. Bedny, A. Bely, K.I. Chukovsky, I.V. Chinnov, V.A. Shchegoleva, etc.), as well as Soviet institutions (Vserosskomdram, VOKS, “Detgiz,” the Union of Writers of the USSR). The book is addressed primarily to trained readers — scientists, university teachers, graduate students, students of philology, historians, cultural studies.
Keywords: source study, archive, scientific publication, textual criticism, commentary, literary institutions, memoirs, diaries, correspondence, Soviet literature, Russian literature abroad.
CONTENTS
ARCHIVAL PUBLICATIONS
From the creative heritage of writers
Daria S. Moskovskaya.
A. Bely’s Report on the Culture of Local History Essay
Unknown Dramatic Works of Demyan Bedny of the 1930s: “From Stepan Razin to the Present Day” and “Volga, Volga, Mother, Mother — Soviet River” (introduction, text preparation, comments by Maksim L. Fedorov)
“I Didn’t Think It Was So Hard to Live Here...” I.V. Chinnov about Russian Paris of the 1940–1950s in Letters and Interviews (introduction, text preparation, comments by Olga F. Kuznetsova; compilation by Natalia Yu. Bakshaeva).
Ego-documents / Memoirs. Letters. Diaries
V.A. Shchegoleva’s Diary of 1915 (introduction, text preparation, comments by Natalia A. Drovaleva, Olga A. Simonova)
Marina A. Arias-Vikhil.
Unknown Letters from R. Rolland to the Siberian Writer G. Vyatkin (Based on the Materials of the Department of Manuscripts of the IWL RAS)
Elena V. Kudrina.
The Story of One Failed Appointment (M.M. Basov and “Detgiz”)
ARTICLES AND MESSAGES
Sociology of the literary process
Konstantin I. Plotnikov.
Vserosskomdram and Its Predecessors: the History of Russian Playwrights’ Professional Organizations in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu.
“The Messenger of the Theater” (“Вестник театра”), a Combat Magazine at the Service of “Theatrical October” (1919–1921)
Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu.
Financial and Administrative Changes in the Moscow Art Theater (1917–1938). Stages of Transformation of a Theatrical Partnership on Shares into a State Theater: To Raise the Question
Serge Rolet.
Publishing House “Academia” in the Early 1930s: Race for Fees
Cécile Pichon-Bonin.
The Market for Children’s Books and the Compensation of Illustrators in Soviet Russia in the 1920s and 1930s
Tatiana Yu. Trankvillitskaia.
VOKS Activities Between 1925 and 1938: Problems of Financial Survival
Source studies and biographies
Serge Rolet.
“Eleazar.” Notes on Marginal Poetry of the Prose Writer L. Andreev
Svetlana V. Fedotova.
Unknown Episode at the Beginning of Korney Chukovsky’s Literary Career
In memoriam
Marina A. Arias-Vikhil.
Claudia Pieralli (1979–2023) In Memory of an Outstanding Scholar and Friend
