(, "Contemporary Papers") was a politicized literary journal published from 1920 to 1940. A group of adherents of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party launched the journal during the Russian Civil War.
Headquartered in Paris, Sovremennye zapiski published the poetry, fiction, and articles of Russian emigrants, many of them highly respected writers and philosophers.
It is one of several Russian journals that published the early fiction of Vladimir Nabokov; Nabokov's novel Despair was first serialized in Sovremennye zapiski.
Featured titles Vladimir Nabokov Despair Laughter in the Dark The Gift Ivan Bunin Mitya's Love The Life of Arseniev Andrei Bely The Baptized Chinaman Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy Sisters (first part of The Road to Calvary)
See also February Revolution October Revolution Russian diaspora
Footnotes
Further reading M.V. Vishniak, Sovremennye zapiski: Vospominaniia redaktora. (Sovremennye zapiski: Reminiscences of an Editor). St. Petersburg, Russia: Logos, 1993.