How International Was International Literature?: Languages and People, 1932-1936

• In Event: Periodicals Unbound II: Beyond the Printed Word: Interdisciplinary Methods in Studying Periodical Press

Abstract

The journal project International Literature, published in Moscow in 1931-1943 in four separate editions in Russian, English, German and French, was aimed to create a corpus of communist world literature, and also a global network of authors from Europe, North and South America, the Far East, Middle and Central Asia. Based on the dataset from collective DH-project InterLit, this paper will analyze the list of authors of four editions, to determine to what extent the actual content of the journal corresponded to the utopian plan of its founders. I will explore what kind of geographical, ethnic and linguistic diversity the journal actually presented, and what were the dynamics of changes throughout the first part journal's history.

Author

• Elena Zemskova, Independent Scholar