- Molodaya Gvardiya (magazine)
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- For other meanings, see Young Guard.
Molodaya Gvardiya (Russian: Молодая гвардия, "Young Guard") is a monthly Russian magazine focusing on literature and politics, founded in Moscow in May 1922 as an organ of the Komsomol.[1]
It had an immediate success with Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov's short novel Shokolad (Chocolate), a controversial work in which the author "faced without blinking the truth about 'revolutionary justice' as meted out by the organs of state security, and with knowledge gained at first hand he revealed the methods used by the Cheka to maintain the Bolsheviks in power"; the "chocolate" of the title stands for luxuries enjoyed "in the midst of proletarian starvation."[2] It was not published from 1942 to 1947 due to the hardships of the second world war. Between 1947 and 1956 it was published as a periodical anthology for young writers.[3] It became increasingly conservative and nationalist over the years, publishing strongly nativist and sometimes xenophobic material[4] during the Khrushchev Thaw (although in 1964 it also published Andrey Voznesensky's long poem "Oza," which was "a favorite among Soviet scientists and other intellectuals,"[5] as well as the results of the first Soviet public opinion survey, in which young people complained about their sexual ignorance[6]) and opposing perestroika.[7]
It was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1972.
References
- ^ "Komsomol Press", an article from Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Russian)
- ^ Edward J. Brown, Russian Literature Since the Revolution (Harvard University Press, 1982: ISBN 0674782046), p. 114.
- ^ Great Soviet Encyclopedia, article "Molodaya Gvardiya (magazine)"
- ^ Martin A. Lee, The Beast Reawakens (Taylor & Francis, 1999; ISBN 0415925460), p. 317.
- ^ Harry T. Moore and Albert Parry, Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (Southern Illinois University Press, 1974; ISBN 0809307030), p. 120.
- ^ Igor S. Kon, The Sexual Revolution in Russia (Simon and Schuster, 1995; ISBN 0029175410), p. 97.
- ^ Bill Keller, "In the Gantlet of Democracy, A Soviet Editor Takes Knocks," New York Times, June 18, 1988.
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