The Comrade Magazine (1928–1931, Novosibirsk, Russia): Avant-garde Features of the Siberian Pioneer Magazine

Abstract

In her article, “The Magazine Comrade (1928–1931, Novosibirsk, Russia): Avant-garde Features of the Siberian Pioneer Magazine”, Ksenia Abramova describes the children's magazine Comrade, published in Novosibirsk from 1928 until 1931. It was originally intended for school-age children, but since September 1929, the editorial board noticed Comrade as “the magazine of students and pioneers of Siberia”. The author focuses on the analysis of the characteristics of the content and design of the magazine, in order to identify the traits of avant-garde periodicals of the 1920s–1930s. She analyzes manifestations of the desire of the editors to follow the settings of “literature of fact”, but claims that Comrade had some mixture of following literary
tradition and methods that erase all borders between “reality” and “literature”.

Keywords: avant-garde, Siberian journalism, pioneer magazines, the literature of fact, montage, Siberian children's magazine, seriation, illustration, magazine Comrade