Ardis. American dream of Russian literature

In 1971, the couple of American Slavists Karl and Ellende Proffer founded the publishing house Ardis. Joseph Brodsky later compared their work with the coup that Gutenberg once committed. Russian culture owes a modest publishing house to very many: the restoration of the interrupted connection with the silver age, and the salvation from oblivion of the silent literature of the 1920-1930s, and the publication of relevant writers prohibited in the USSR. In fact, “Ardis” - in contrast to the Soviet literary canon - created another history of Russian literature of the twentieth century, the traditions of which we still follow. In such detail, on the basis of rare archival documents and numerous interviews, the history of a unique publishing project is told for the first time.
The author of the book is Nikolai Uskov, candidate of historical sciences, historian and journalist, since 2016 editor -in -chief, then editorial director of Forbes