Kontinent

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This article is about the political journal. For the luxembourgish band, see Kontinent (band).

Kontinent was a dissident journal which focused on the politics of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Founded in 1974 by writer Vladimir Maximov,[1][2][3][4] its first editor-in-chief, it was published in German and Russian and later translated into English.

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, and Carl-Gustav Ströhm.

This initial issue featured a debate between Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn regarding Solzhenitsyn's Letter to the Soviet Leaders.

[edit] 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 of scientific journals correcting errors indicated by readers.[5] The Russian version has been available online since 1999.[6]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Tatyana Shvetsova. AFTER WORD TO THE EPOCH OF NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=2465&cid=125&p=13.07.2006
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Ecrivain russe: MAXIMOV Vladimir, 1930-1995 (in French) http://www.lescimetieres.com/Photos/ailleurs/RusseEssonne/MAXIMOV%20Vladimir.htm
  4. ^ Максимов Владимир Емельянович (Самсонов Лев Алексеевич) (1930—1995), texts by Maximov, available online (in Russian) http://antology.igrunov.ru/authors/maximov/
  5. ^ Фатима Салказанова. По поводу статьи Галины Аккерман. Kontinent, 2006, v.130, ra31. (example of correction of errors, in Russian)
  6. ^ Russian version of Kontinent online

[edit] 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