A. P. Platonov and censorship (a repressed 1939 publication in the Oktyabr)

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The article analyzes a previously unknown episode in the history of censorship, highlighting the literary historic value of a very rare and hard-to-access source, Summary of the Most Important Seizures, Detentions and Confiscations Made by Glavlit of the USSR, printed in the 1930s in six copies for the top leadership of the country, that is now known only in single issues. The newly discovered issue, deposited in one of the files of A. Y. Vyshinsky, as Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Commissars, in the State Archive of the Russian Federation, contains the censorship records pertaining to the failed publication of A. P. Platonov’s short story «Life in the Family (Among Animals and Plants)» in the Oktyabr magazine in 1939. The records not only offer a new narrative concerning the fate of this long-suffering work by A. P. Platonov, but also help to restore the lost fragments of the original text.

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Petr A. Druzhinin

Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: petr@druzhinin.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3097-3375

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Russian Federation, Moscow

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