Journal Znamya. 2022. No. 7

The events that are taking place in the country now, and propaganda, becoming more and more annoying, persistently return us to the Soviet past, with which we, it turns out, hurried to say goodbye. And what was it actually? The July issue of the magazine, compiled under the sign of "back to the USSR", answers this question.
These are the verses of Evgeny Solonovich, Gennady Rusakov, Maxim Amelin, Katya Kapovich, Tatyana Poletaeva. And the prose, the section of which is revealed by the Roman -Traveling Roman of the “Znamensky "debutant Tatyana Chernysheva" daughter of the traitor ", attached to Elena Chizhova, and continue - each in his own way - the stories of Lesha Permsky, Pavel Grushko and Vladimir Aristov. A kind of "outbreak of memory" - the essay of Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Maria Helfon, Lev Simkin, Elena Kholmogorova, adjoin them.
It is quite natural that archival materials occupy a noticeable place in such a room. Lyudmila Sergeeva for the first time publishes a joking "ode dedicated to her in case of Joseph Brodsky. "Found pages" Leonid Zorin is represented by his son Andrei Zorin. And the inexhaustible, apparently, the legacy of Leonid Martynov, with a poetic selection of which is introduced by readers L.V. Sukhov. In the same row, the interview placed under the heading "oral speech", which in 1986 gave in New York Friedrich Gorenstein (introduction, preparation of the text and comments of Yuri Veksler)
Honored Professor of the Sorbonne Veronika Zhober shared his memories of trips to the Soviet Union of the 1960s. About the patriarchal-Soviet lifestyle, almost unchanged in the closed "nuclear" city of Sarov, says his young resident Anna Nedina. According to documents and personal notes, the famous Novo-Ogarevsky process Yuri Baturin, who directly participated in it as one of the assistants M.S. Gorbachev. Natalya Ivanova reflects on where to get (or has already started?) Our Sovetic-Impersky nostalgia in the article "in advance (nostalizing 2.0)
How is the “Soviet” is seen in today"s eyes ”and whether the coexistence of official culture and underground is possible, Elena Solovyova asks in a review of the latest magazine and network publications (the heading will retrain”) And in the Observer "section, we are talking about new books. Nadezhda Azhgikhina is represented by Elena Chizhova’s novel "Lord of things", Vera Kalmykova - a two -volume anthology of poems about Babi Yar. Elena Sevryugina analyzes the metarealistic novel by Andrei Tavrova "Snigir", Stanislav secrets - "Notes of the vagabond doctor" Joseph Raskin. A huge volume of Boris Dubin gives Olga Ball an occasion to recall the deceased with a wonderful sociologist and, plus to everything, the constant author of the “banner”. About the artists-sixties following Vadim Alekseev, the author of the book “perfectly different”, says Kirill Yamshchikov. Monograph of the Netherlands Slavist Ellen Rutten "Sincerity after communism: Cultural History" - in the focus of attention of Alexander Markov. About how, in the 1920-1930s, the most insightful foreign travelers freely or involuntarily fell under the influence of total communist propaganda, Polina Zherebtsova tells in a review of the book of Lev Simkin"s great deception, while Artem Pudov shares his impressions that inspired him The study of Anna Sokolova "New Man is a new death. The funeral culture of the early USSR. "
And finally, the traditional "cursive of Olga Ball" closes the number, where the attention of readers draws to the collection "without a queue. Scenes of Soviet life in the stories of modern writers ", to the story" The Turdish Manon Lesko "and the diaries" of the hidden classic "Vsevolod Petrov and on the book of George Kizwalter" reports from the valves. An alternative history of unofficial culture in the 1970s and 1980s in the USSR through the eyes of foreign journalists, a supplemented interview with its heroes. "