Letopis


Letopis was a Russian monthly journal published in St Petersburg from December 1915 until December 1917. It had a range of material including literary, scientific and political material. Its political stance was to oppose nationalism and the First World War. Officially A. F. Radzishevsky was the editor but in practice Maxim Gorky edited the paper.
Under the Tsarist regime Letopis was continually censored for an anti-war stance. Nikolai Sukhanov, described how the editors used to meet in Gorky's flat, in particular during the February Revolution:
Many of the contributors were involved in the Free Association for the Development and Dissemination of Positive Science after it was founded in March 1917.
In 1917 the Letopis also made a stand against the Bolsheviks, condemning the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917.

Contributors

Letopis attracted a large range of notable contributors: