''Revolutsionnyi vostok'' (russian: Революционный восток, , Revolutionary East) was a monthly theoretical journal which was published by the Communist University of the Toilers of the East (KUTV) between 1927 and 1938 in

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. It was one of the major Orientalist publications in the Soviet Union.

History and profile

''Revolutsionnyi vostok'' was launched by the KUTV in 1927. It came out monthly and was headquartered in Moscow. In the second issue the journal featured the Russian translation of the first chapter of the

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's Hunan report which described the details of the Chinese peasant movement. In 1929 the journal published articles in which

Nikolai Nasonov Nikolai Viktorovich Nasonov (russian: Николай Викторович Насонов; 14 February 1855 – 11 February 1939) was a Russian zoologist. In 1879 he graduated from the Imperial Moscow University and became an assistant at its Zoo ...

and

Endre Sík Endre Sík (2 April 1891 – 10 April 1978) was a Hungarian historian, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1958 and 1961. He was the younger brother of the priest Sándor Sík who was also a poet and piarist teacher. During the Firs ...

discussed the distinct understandings of race based on

Marxism Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...

. The journal folded in 1938.

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