- Kontinent
"Kontinent" was a
dissident journal which focused on the politics of theSoviet Union and its satellites. Founded in 1974 by writerVladimir Maximov ,Tatyana Shvetsova.AFTER WORD TO THE EPOCH OF NIKITA KHRUSHCHEVhttp://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=2465&cid=125&p=13.07.2006] PAUL GRAY. THE SEVEN DAYS OF CREATION by Vladimir Maximov.Time, Tuesday, May 29, 2007,http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946489,00.html?iid=chix-sphere] [Ecrivain russe: MAXIMOV Vladimir, 1930-1995 (in French)http://www.lescimetieres.com/Photos/ailleurs/RusseEssonne/MAXIMOV%20Vladimir.htm] [Максимов Владимир Емельянович (Самсонов Лев Алексеевич)(1930—1995), texts by Maximov, available online (in Russian)http://antology.igrunov.ru/authors/maximov/] its first editor-in-chief, it was published in German and Russian and later translated into English. A Norwegian edition, "Kontinent Skandinavia", was published from1979 to1981 .Its Editorial Board included
Raymond Aron , George Bailey,Saul Bellow ,Józef Czapski ,Robert Conquest ,Milovan Djilas ,Alexander Galich ,Jerzy Giedroye ,Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski ,Eugène Ionesco ,Arthur Koestler ,Naum Korzhavin ,Mihajlo Mihajlov ,Ludek Pachman ,Alexander Sakharov ,Alexander Schmemann ,Zïnaida Schakovskoy ,Wolf Siedler ,Ignazio Silone ,Strannik , andCarl-Gustav Ströhm .This initial issue featured a
debate betweenAndrei Sakharov andAleksandr Solzhenitsyn regarding Solzhenitsyn's "Letter to the Soviet Leaders".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 є 014255. "Kontinent" follows traditions ofscientific journal s correcting errors indicated by readers. [http://magazines.russ.ru/continent/2006/130/ra31.html Фатима Салказанова. По поводу статьи Галины Аккерман. Kontinent, 2006, v.130, ra31.] (example of correction of errors, in Russian)] The Russian version has been available online since 1999. [http://magazines.russ.ru/continent/2007/ Russian version of "Kontinent" online] ]Notes
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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