Letopis

Letopis (The Chronicle) was a Russian monthly journal published in St Petersburg from December 1915 until December 1917. It had a range of material including literary, scientific and political material. Its political stance was to oppose nationalism and the First World War. Officially A. F. Radzishevsky was the editor but in practice Maxim Gorky edited the paper.[1]

Letopis
TypeMonthly
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Alexander N. Tikhonov
Editor-in-chiefA. F. Radzishevsky
EditorMaxim Gorky
Political alignmentSocial Democracy
LanguageRussian
Ceased publicationDecember 1917
Headquarters1 B. Monetnaya Street, St Petersburg[1]
Circulation10,000-12,000[1]

Under the Tsarist regime Letopis was continually censored for an anti-war stance. Nikolai Sukhanov, described how the editors used to meet in Gorky's flat, in particular during the February Revolution:

"One after another people both known and unknown to me, to Gorky himself as well as to me, kept coming in. They came in for consultation, to share impressions, to make enquiries and to find out what was going on in various circles. Gorky naturally had connections throughout Petersburg, from top to bottom. We began to talk and we, the editors of Letopis, soon set up a united front against representatives of the Left, the internationalist representatives of our own views, heedless of the charges of betrayal of our own watchwords at the decisive moment."[2]

Many of the contributors were involved in the Free Association for the Development and Dissemination of Positive Science (SARRPN) after it was founded in March 1917.[3]

In 1917 the Letopis also made a stand against the Bolsheviks, condemning the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917.[1]

Contributors

Letopis attracted a large range of notable contributors:[1]

References
  1. "Saint Petersburg encyclopaedia". www.encspb.ru. The Likhachev Foundation. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. Sukhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (2014). The Russian Revolution 1917: A Personal Record by N.N. Sukhanov. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400857104. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  3. Josephson, Paul R. (1991). Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-91147-5.
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