Article

Name: Vsemirny Trud (1867–1872) as World Labor: The History of a Magazine

Authors: Alexey E. Kozlov; Elizaveta M. Alekseeva

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section The Plot, Motive, Genre

Abstract:

The article provides an outline of the history of the journal Vsemirny Trud (1867–1872). In the introduction A. Kozlov provides brief bio-bibliographic information related to the publishing activities and reputation of Emanuil Khan. It is shown that the publisher's key ambition – to turn the magazine into a successor to ‘Epoch’ and ‘Otechestvennye Zapiski’ – was not realized. Institutional factors influencing the evaluation of the publication are considered: the restructuring of the literary and journal field in 1866; no prior censorship; weak publishing and civic reputation of Khan, his “amateurism” among writers; the focus of the publication’s employees on working in several periodicals; explication of internal editorial scandals; loss of key reader groups due to “colorlessness” and non-partisanship. Three periods in the functioning of the magazine have been identified, each of which is associated with general changes in the literary and journal field.

The appendix contains the prepared by E. Alekseeva list of a content of magazine (1867–1872).

Keywords: Russian literature, Russian journalism, “Vsemirny Trud”, Emanuil Khan, sociology of literature

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