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Issue #1:
Sholokhov Slams Solzhenitsyn!

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FADEEV KILLS SELF! Blames
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Mayakovsky on Futurism!

Issue #4:
Gladkov & The Smithy vs. RAPP

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Conversations with Vassily Aksyonov
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"Our Teaching Is Not Dogma"
Address by Maksim Gorky to the
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"On Boris Pilnyak"
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Contents of Issue #8:
AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY DANIIL KHARMS:
  • "How I Was Born" - How Kharms was born twice.
  • "Incubation Period" - Oops, make that three times.
  • "I Was Born in The Reeds" - Actually, he was born
    four times.

    SHORT CHRONICLE OF THE LIFE AND
    WORKS OF DANIIL KHARMS
    His birth, schooling, early performances with the OBERIU,
    arrests, and death.

    PRE-HISTORY AND HISTORY
    OF THE CHINARI
    by Yakov Drushkin
    An absurdist literary organization that pre-dates
    the OBERIU.

    ARREST PROTOCOLS OF DANIIL KHARMS
    Another, sadder, form of absurdist literature:
    Kharms "confesses" about the anti-Soviet nature of
    both his adult works and his writing for children.

    MILLION
     Anti-Soviet counting rhyme by D.I. Kharms.

    IVAN IVANYCH SAMOVAR
     Philistine children's poetry by D.I. Kharms.

    MORE STORIES BY KHARMS:
  • "Fairy Tale" - Every good fairy tale has already been written.
  • "State Publishing House Watchmen" - How Kharms et al.
    keep watch over the city.
  • "Pushkin and Gogol" - The giants of Russian literature
    are falling all over each other.
  • "Declaraction of Love" - The unspoken language of love.
  • "Untitled" - Olga Forsh, Aleksei Tolstoy, and a shovel...
    a battle of literary prominences.
  • "Power" - We sin and do good blindly.
  • "Myshin's Victory" - Lying down on principle over the
    housing shortage.

    AZURE CITIES
     by Aleksei Tolstoy
    Detailed summary of a passionate story of a tormenting,
    impatient, and feverish imagination.

    Biography of Aleksei Tolstoy


    MY REMINISCENCES OF EVGENY SHVARTS
    by Nikolai Chukovsky
    Remembering playwrite and Kharms' buddy Evgeny Shvarts.


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