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Zvezda Digital Archive (1924 to present)

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Infoteka

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Siehe auch:
Russian Thick Journals

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Bestellnummer bei digento :: digento order number

109113

Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information

Founded in 1924 in Petrograd (later Leningrad, now St. Petersburg), Zvezda (Звезда, The Star) is Russia’s oldest monthly “thick journal,” a group of publications that played a crucial role in shaping Soviet intellectual and literary discourse. Initially released six times a year, it became a monthly publication in 1927 and has been a key resource of Russian intellectual and literary circles for a century.

The journal’s longevity and resilience through tumultuous periods of Soviet history, including the Siege of Leningrad and Stalinist repression, make it an essential resource for understanding the complexities of Russian cultural development over the past century. Notably, Zvezda faced severe criticism in August 1946 from the Soviet Communist Party in the infamous resolution “On the Journals ‘Zvezda’ and ‘Leningrad’,” where it was accused of publishing “ideologically harmful works,” particularly those by Mikhail Zoshchenko and Anna Akhmatova. During the era of perestroika, Zvezda began publishing previously prohibited works and articles by authors such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Sakharov, Yuri Lotman and many others.

The Zvezda Digital Archive provides a panoramic view of Russian intellectual life across the 20th and 21st centuries, and the journal’s survival through periods of intense censorship and its role in pushing boundaries during more liberal times make it an essential resource for understanding the nuanced tapestry of Russian culture, literature, and thought.

This extensive coverage provides researchers with access to:

• Literary works by established and emerging Russian writers
• Critical essays and reviews on literature, art, and culture
• Discussions of social and political issues within the constraints of the era
• Previously prohibited works published during the perestroika period
• Evolving perspectives on Russian identity and cultural heritage

The Zvezda Digital Archive offers a comprehensive collection spanning over 100 years, with an additional year’s worth of content available for purchase on an annual basis. The archive includes more than 25,000 works by over 10,000 authors, encompassing nearly 1,200 issues, over 23,000 articles, and over 280,000 pages. If converted to print, the archive for this title would occupy 49 feet of library shelf space. The archive offers scholars the most comprehensive collection available for this title, and features full page-level digitization and complete original graphics. The archive has searchable text and is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.

Note: In 1992 only 10 issues of Zvezda were published. This is not a gap in archive content but reflects the journal’s publication schedule that year.

Key Stats

• Archive: 1924–2025
• Language: Russian
• Country: Russia
• City: St. Petersburg
• Frequency: Monthly
• Format: PDF, article-based
• Producer: Infoteka