Revolutsionnyi vostok (Russian: Революционный восток, lit.'Revolutionary East') was a monthly theoretical journal which was published by the Communist University of the Toilers of the East (KUTV) between 1927 and 1938 in Moscow. It was one of the major Orientalist publications in the Soviet Union.

Revolutsionnyi vostok
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherCommunist University of the Toilers of the East
Founded1927
Final issue1938
CountrySoviet Union
Based inMoscow
LanguageRussian

History and profile edit

Revolutsionnyi vostok was launched by the KUTV in 1927.[1][2] It came out monthly[1] and was headquartered in Moscow.[3] In the second issue the journal featured the Russian translation of the first chapter of the Mao Zedong's Hunan report which described the details of the Chinese peasant movement.[4] In 1929 the journal published articles in which Nikolai Nasonov and Endre Sík discussed the distinct understandings of race based on Marxism.[5] The journal folded in 1938.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Masha Kirasirova (January 2011). ""Sons of Muslims" in Moscow: Soviet Central Asian Mediators to the Foreign East, 1955–1962". Ab Imperio. 2011 (4): 110. doi:10.1353/imp.2011.0003. S2CID 162321580.
  2. ^ R. M. Valeev; et al. (2021). "Post-revolution oriental studies in the ussr: correspondence between v. V. Bartold and a. Y. Krymsky in the 1920s". Journal for Educators, Teachers and Trainers. 12 (1): 107. doi:10.47750/jett.2021.12.01.014 (inactive 27 April 2024). hdl:10481/69186. S2CID 236591077.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of April 2024 (link)
  3. ^ "Революционный Восток". rusneb.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  4. ^ Karl A. Wittfogel (April–June 1960). "The Legend of "Maoism" (Concluded)". The China Quarterly (2): 21. JSTOR 651437.
  5. ^ Irina Filatova (2007). "Anti-Colonialism in Soviet African Studies (1920s–1960)". In Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (ed.). The Study of Africa. Vol. 2. Dakar: Codesria. p. 216. ISBN 978-2-86978-198-6.