Star (magazine XX-XXI centuries)

The literary and political journal, the organ of the Union of Writers of the USSR was founded in January 1924 . The first editor of the journal was I. M. Maisky .

The journal published works by Maxim Gorky (the third book of the Life of Klim Samgin), Nikolai Zabolotsky , Mikhail Zoshchenko , Veniamin Kaverin , Nikolai Klyuev , Boris Lavrenyov (Forty-first), Osip Mandelstam , Boris Pasternak , Alexei Tolstoy , Constantin Fst, Lenderne , Constantin F, Lenderne , Constantin F, Lenten Zavolitsky; Cities and years ”,“ Brothers ”,“ Abduction of Europe ”), Vladislav Khodasevich , Yury Tynianov (“ Death of Wazir-Mukhtar ”), many other prominent Russian prose writers and poets.

The magazine was published in the years of the blockade . After the war, the magazine published works by Vera Panova, D. Granin, V. Kochetov, and Y. German.

In August 1946, the journal was subjected to harsh criticism, the most famous document of which was the resolution of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) "On the magazines Zvezda and Leningrad" . The resolution stated that the magazine publishes "many unprincipled, ideologically harmful works." The main mistakes of the journal in the resolution are the publications of the stories of “vulgar and scum of literature” by Zoshchenko , who “long ago specialized in writing empty, vapid and vulgar things, on preaching rotten lack of ideality, vulgarity and apoliticality, designed to disorient our young people and poison their minds "and the works of Akhmatova ," a typical representative of the alien to our people empty unprincipled poetry, "poems that" harm to the education of our youth and can not be tolerated in with etskoy literature. "

The editorial policy of the journal and its entire appearance have been defined since the mid-1990s. his co-editors Jacob Gordin and Andrei Aryev , as well as the head of the poetry and critics departments Alexei Purin .

In addition to the monthly headings of the magazine “Poetry and Prose”, “New translations”, “Our publications”, “Opinions”, “Essayistics and criticism”, the permanent headings include: “Historical readings”, “Memoirs of the 20th century”, “Army: war and peace ”,“ Russia and the Caucasus ”,“ People and destinies ”,“ Such is the story ”,“ Lessons from elegant literature ”,“ Philosophical commentary ”. Authors headings are conducted by: Mikhail Epshtein (“The Adventures of Ideas”), A. K. Zholkovsky (“Lessons from Fine Literature”), S. Lurie (“The Running Line”), Omri Ronen (“From the City of En”), Igor P. Smirnov (“Philosophical Commentary”), Alexander Melikhov (“The Past and Books”) Once a year a special issue of the journal is published, dedicated to one outstanding author or phenomenon.

The editorial board of the journal includes K. M. Azadovsky , E. V. Anisimov , I. S. Kuzmichyov , A. S. Kushner , A. I. Nezhny , Georges Niva (France), G. F. Nikolaev (Germany), V G. Popov , I. P. Smirnov (Germany).

Since the late 1990s, publisher has been working with the magazine. All-Russian and international conferences, literary evenings, meetings with well-known politicians and cultural figures are held in the editorial office regularly, exhibitions of artists are organized.

Attitudes toward authors are expressed in a standard formula, on the first page and on the journal’s website: “Manuscripts for publication in the Zvezda journal are accepted only in printed form. Manuscripts are not returned or reviewed; the editors do not enter into correspondence about them ” ^[1] .

In 2015, the circulation of "Stars" was reduced to 2,000 copies. Due to the fact that the magazine was on the verge of survival, the editors announced a fundraiser to continue its release on the crowdfunding platform Planeta.ru ^[2] .

• 1924 - I.M. Maysky
• 1925 - 1926 - G. E. Gorbachev
• 1926 - 1928 - P. G. Petrovsky
• 1934 - 1937 - Yu. N. Libedinsky
• 1939 - 1940 - G. K. Kholopov
• 1940 -? - I. A. Gruzdev
• 1945 - 1946 - V.M. Sayanov
• On June 26, 1946, P. I. Kapitsa was appointed chief editor, but he did not have time to start work.
• August 12, 1946 - 1947 - A.M. Egolin
• 1947 - 1957 - V.P. Druzin
• 1957 - 1988 - G. K. Kholopov (with him “The Star” “gained the reputation of a journal, although intelligent, on the whole progressive, but extremely timid, controversial, evasive, without its clearly expressed face” ^[3] )
• 1989 - 1991 - G. F. Nikolaev (elected at the general meeting of Leningrad writers in May 1988 from three candidacies, approved by the secretariat of the board of the USSR Writers' Union in November 1988)
• since 1992 - J. Gordin and A. Aryev (co-editors)

• 1927 - 5,000 copies.
• 1943 - 11,000 copies.
• 1954 - 60,000 copies.
• 1958 - 75,000 copies.
• 1975-1983 - approximately 115,000 copies.
• 1987 - 140,000 copies
• 1989 - 190,000 copies
• 1990 - 344,000 copies.
• January 1991 - 141,000 copies.
• November 1991 - 62 600 copies
• 1992 - 20,000 copies
• 2005 - 4 300 copies
• 2006 - 3,400 copies.
• 2010 - 3,000 copies
• 2015 - 2,000 copies

• Kazak V. Lexicon of Russian literature of the XX century = Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917 / [trans. with him.]. - M .: RIK "Culture", 1996. - XVIII, 491, [1] p. - 5000 copies - ISBN 5-8334-0019-8 .
• B. L. Komanovsky. “The Star” // Short Literary Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. A. A. Surkov. - M .: Owls. encycl., 1962-1978. - T. 2: Gavrilyuk - Zyulfigar Shirvani. - 1964. - Stb. 1004-1005.

• Official website of the magazine
• Bibliography of the magazine "Star"
• The magazine "Star" in the Journal Hall