Nekrasova Yu. S.

Almanac Ural Contemporary in the resolutions of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the Party of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Pp. 119–126.

UDC 070(470.54)(09)

DOI 10.37724/RSU.2024.83.2.013

 

Abstract. The literary and artistic almanac Ural Contemporary existed from 1938 to 1957 and was the printed organ of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Union of Soviet Writers. Like other periodicals and non-periodical publications, it had to rely on the decisions of the regional committee of the All-Union Communist Party, i.e. the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee. The purpose of the article is to study the policy of the regional committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks to the almanac, to trace the influence of the committee’s resolutions on the publishing activities of Ural Contemporary. The subject under consideration is archival documents that are related to Ural Contemporary kept in the Documentation Center of Public Organizations of the Sverdlovsk Region. The relevance of the study is dictated by insufficient study of the publications of the only printed organ of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Union of Soviet Writers in that period. The article shows that although the publication existed for a long time and united many writers, there were very few resolutions related to the almanac. The existing documents partially influenced changes in the structure of Ural Contemporary: the editorial team, a single increase in the circulation, attracting the attention of the publisher and distributor of the almanac to the problems of publication and increasing demand for the periodical. Some of the resolutions, such as changing its name during the war years, as well as changing the head editors, were ignored by Ural Contemporary. Based on the analysis of the available protocols of the regional committee of the CPSU (b), it was concluded that the regional committee of the party and the direct participants of Ural Contemporary were not in close contact, which affected their sometimes dis-coordinated work and made the literary activists dissatisfied. The results of the study are applicable to studying regional literature, as well as periodicals and ongoing publications.

 

Keywords: literary and art almanacs, regional committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b), regional literature, Sverdlovsk branch of the Union of Soviet Writers, Ural writers, Ural Contemporary, Ural literature.

 

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