Novy Mir is a Russian language

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

 literary magazine

Literary magazine

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 that has been published in Moscow

Moscow

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 since January 1925. It was supposed to be modelled on the popular pre-Soviet literary magazine Mir Bozhy ("God's World"), which was published from 1892 to 1906, and its follow-up, Sovremenny Mir ("Contemporary World"), which was published 1906-1917. It mainly published prose that approved of the general line of the Communist Party

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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, though a small controversy occurred in 1945, when Novy Mir published an essay by Aleksandr Bek

Aleksandr Bek

Alexander Alfredovich Bek , sometimes transliterated from the Russian Cyrillic as Aleksandr Bek or Anglicized to Alexander Beck, was a Soviet novelist and writer.-Biography:Alexander Bek was born on 3 January 1903...

 which mentioned six different slang terms for "perineum

Perineum

In human anatomy, the perineum is a region of the body including the perineal body and surrounding structures...

".

In the early 1960s, Novy Mir changed its political stance, leaning to a dissident

Soviet dissidents

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 position. In November 1962 the magazine became famous for publishing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was aRussian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of...

's groundbreaking One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir . The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov...

, a novella about a prisoner of the Gulag

Gulag

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. The magazine kept publishing controversial articles and stories about various aspects of Soviet and Russia

Russia

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n history until Alexander Tvardovsky's forced resignation in February 1970. With the appointment of Sergey Zalygin in 1986, at the beginning of the perestroika

Perestroika

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 period, the magazine practiced increasingly bold criticism of the Soviet regime. It also published fiction and poetry by previously banned writers, like George Orwell

George Orwell

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, Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...

 and Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...

.

Editors-in-chief

• Vyacheslav Polonsky (1926–1931)
• Ivan Gronsky (1931–1937)
• Vladimir Stavsky (1937–1941)
• Vladimir Shcherbina (1941–1946)
• Konstantin Simonov
  Konstantin Simonov
  Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov was a Russian/Soviet author, known especially as a war poet.-Early years:He was born in Petrograd. His mother was born Princess Obolenskaya, of a Rurikid family. His father, an officer in the Tsar's army, left Russia after the Revolution in 1917. He died in Poland...
  
   (1946–1950)
• Alexander Tvardovsky (1950–1954)
• Konstantin Simonov (1954–1957)
• Alexander Tvardovsky (1958–1970)
• Valery Kosolapov (1970–1974)
• Sergei Narovchatov (1974–1981)
• Vladimir Karpov
  Vladimir Karpov
  Vladimir Vasilyevich Karpov was a Soviet writer of historical novels and public figure. He was awarded the hero of the Soviet Union for bravery in World War II....
  
   (1981–1986)
• Sergey Zalygin (1986–1998)
• Andrei Vasilevsky (1998- )