Z archipelagu na kontynent. Polskie tropy Władimira Maksimowa
From the Archipelago to the Continent Polish Traces of Vladimir Maksimov

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I have attempted a synthetic analysis of the Polish threads in the editorial activity of Vladimir Maksimov (1930-1995) as head of the émigré quarterly Continent during the period of its publication in Paris (1974-1992). The main idea of Maksimov as editor was to create such a literary-political, and allegedly anti-communist, magazine in Western Europe, which would bring together people involved in the struggle for freedom throughout Eastern Europe in cooperation with Western Europe. Similar aims had already been pursued much earlier in Parisian Kultura - by Jerzy Giedroyc, Józef Czapski, Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, who, at Maksimov’s request, joined the international editorial board of Continent, remaining on it until his death, even when the editorial board was moved to Moscow from 1992 and handed over to Igor Vinogradov as editor. Meanwhile, Maksimov during the Paris period, supported since 1976 by Natalia Gorbanevskaya, also collaborated very willingly with Poles from the communist regime - Viktor Woroszylski, Adam Michnik, Andrzej Drawicz, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski. Both Maksimov and Gorbanievskaya, as well as their Polish authors, saw it as a part of a common struggle “For our freedom and yours” - together with Ukrainians, Czechs, Slovaks, Lithuanians, and Hungarians. The above article’s overall aim was to present this very important “Polish segment” in the history of the Russian Continent in exile.

• Details
• Contents