''Letopis'' was a Russian monthly journal published in

St Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

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 Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a in-group and out-group, group of peo ...

and the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. Officially A. F. Radzishevsky was the editor but in practice

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...

edited the paper. 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 The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...

: :"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." 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. In 1917 the Letopis also made a stand against the

Bolsheviks The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

, condemning the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917.

Contributors

''Letopis'' attracted a large range of notable contributors: * Boris Avilov * Vladimir Bazarov * Alexander Blok *

Alexander Bogdanov Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Богда́нов; – 7 April 1928), born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and B ...

* Valery Bryusov * Ivan Bunin *

Osip Yermansky Osip Arkadyevich Yermansky (Russian: О́сип Арка́дьевич Ерма́нский; 28 July 1867 – 1941), born Yosif Arkadyevich Kogan (Russian: Иосиф Аркадьевич Коган), and known by the pseudonyms M. Borisov, A. ...

Sergei Yesenin Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin ( rus, Сергей Александрович Есенин, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ jɪˈsʲenʲɪn; ( 1895 – 28 December 1925), sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one o ...

* Anatole France *

Lev Kamenev Lev Borisovich Kamenev. (''né'' Rozenfeld; – 25 August 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. Born in Moscow to parents who were both involved in revolutionary politics, Kamenev attended Imperial Moscow Uni ...

Platon Kerzhentsev Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev (russian: Плато́н Миха́йлович Ке́рженцев), (real name Lebedev (Ле́бедев), pseudonym V. Kerzhentsev) (4 August 1881 – 2 June 1940) was a Soviet state and party official, rev ...

Yuri Larin Yuri may refer to: People and fictional characters Given name *Yuri (Slavic name), the Slavic masculine form of the given name George, including a list of people with the given name Yuri, Yury, etc. *Yuri (Japanese name), also Yūri, feminine Jap ...

Jack London John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to ...

* Vladimir Mayakovsky *

Mikhail Olminsky Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky ( rus, Михаил Степанович Ольминский) (15 October, 1863 – May 8, 1933) (real surname: Aleksandrov) was a prominent Russian Bolshevik particularly involved with Party history and also an acti ...

* Mikhail Prishvin * A.F. Radzishevsky * Romain Rolland *

Maria Smith-Falkner Maria Natanovna Smith-Falkner (russian: Мария Натановна Смит-Фалькнер; February 16 ebruary 4, Old Style 1878 in Taganrog – March 7, 1968 in Moscow) was a Soviet economist, statistician and a corresponding member of the ...

Nikolai Sukhanov Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Суха́нов; 29 June 1940) was a Russian Menshevik Internationalist and chronicler of the Russian Revolution. Life Nikolai Sukhanov (a pseudonym, his real name ...

Alexander Tikhonov Alexander Ivanovich Tikhonov (russian: Александр Иванович Тихонов; born 2 January 1947) is a former Soviet-Russian biathlete. On 23 July 2007, he was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to three ye ...

Kliment Timiryazev Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev (russian: Климент Аркадьевич Тимирязев, surname sometimes transliterated as Timiriazev; – 28 April 1920) was a Russian Imperial botanist and physiologist and a major proponent of the ...

Emile Verhaeren Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *'' Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *'' Emil and the Detecti ...

H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells"Wells, H. G."
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