Published: 2023-10-10

From the archipelago to the continent. Polish traces of Vladimir Maksimov

Grzegorz Władysław Przebinda Logo ORCID

Abstract

FROM THE ARCHIPELAGO TO THE CONTINENT

POLISH TRACES OF VLADIMIR MAKSIMOV

In this article, I have attempted a synthetic analysis of the Polish threads in the editorial activity of Vladimir Maksimov (1930–1995) as head of the émigré quarterly Continent during the period of its publication in Paris (1974–1992). The main idea of Maksimov as editor was to create such a literary-political, and allegedly anti-communist, magazine in Western Europe, which would bring together people involved in the struggle for freedom throughout Eastern Europe in cooperation with Western Europe.

Similar aims had already been pursued much earlier in Parisian Kultura – by Jerzy Giedroyc, Józef Czapski, Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, who, at Maksimov’s request, joined the international editorial board of Continent, remaining on it until his death, even when the editorial board was moved to Moscow from 1992 and handed over to Igor Vinogradov as editor. Meanwhile, Maksimov during the Paris period, supported since 1976 by Natalia Gorbanevskaya, also collaborated very willingly with Poles from the communist regime – Viktor Woroszylski, Adam Michnik, Andrzej Drawicz, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski. Both Maksimov and Gorbanievskaya, as well as their Polish authors, saw it as a part of a common struggle “For our freedom and yours” – together with Ukrainians, Czechs, Slovaks, Lithuanians, and Hungarians.

The overall aim of the above article was therefore to present this very important “Polish segment” in the history of the Russian Continent in exile.

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Przebinda, G. W. (2023). From the archipelago to the continent. Polish traces of Vladimir Maksimov. Przegląd Rusycystyczny [Russian Studies Review], (4 (184), 144–170. https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.15708

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No. 4 (184) (2023)
Published: 2023-11-16


ISSN: 0137-298X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/pr

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Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycystyczne oraz Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

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