''Roman-Gazeta'' (russian: Роман-газета, literally: "Novel-Newspaper") was a special kind of literary
magazine
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in the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
. The magazine was started in 1927.
It was issued irregularly (4 to 24 issues per year, 202 issues in total) from 1927 to 1942, then monthly from 1946 until 1957 when it began to be published twice a month by the "
Khudozhestvennaya Literatura
Khudozhestvennaya Literatura (russian: Художественная литература) is a publishing house in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The name means "fiction literature" in Russian. It specializes in the publishing of Russian and foreign wor ...
"
publishing house
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.
The magazine published mainly new novels (not necessarily the first publication), mostly of Soviet writers, but there were also translations of "ideologically suitable" western writers. It was an inexpensive edition printed on a cheap, brown newspaper paper of size about
C4 without illustrations, hence the name.
The magazine published over 1200 novels and short stories of 700 authors and several collections of verses.
The magazine is continued in
Russia
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.
References
External links
Roman-Gazeta, list of publications
1927 establishments in the Soviet Union
Biweekly magazines
Eastern Bloc mass media
Magazines established in 1927
Russian-language magazines
Literary magazines published in Russia
Monthly magazines published in Russia
Weekly magazines published in Russia
Magazines published in the Soviet Union
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