Sintaksis (Moscow)

Sintaksis
EditorAlexander Ginzburg
CategoriesPoetry magazine
Circulation120–300[1]
Founded1959
Final issue
Number		April 1960 (April 1960)[2]
3
CountrySoviet Union
Based inMoscow
LanguageRussian

Sintaksis (Syntax, Russian: Синтаксис) was a samizdat poetry journal compiled by writer Alexander Ginzburg in 1959-1960. The periodical included poetry which could not be published officially. It is considered to be the first large-scale samizdat (self-published) periodical of a literary nature.[2]

The typescript magazine was compiled and edited by Alexander Ginzburg in Moscow.

The first two issues featured poetry by authors in Moscow, including Bella Akhmadulina and Bulat Okudzhava, Nikolai Glazkov and Vsevolod Nekrasov.[3]

The third issue featured poets from Leningrad, including Dmitry Bobyshev, Joseph Brodsky, Gleb Gorbovsky, Viktor Golyavkin, Mikhail Eremin, Sergey Kulle, Aleksander Kushner, Evgeny Rein, Nonna Slepakova, and Vladimir Uflyand.[2]

Ginzburg was arrested in 1960, while working on a planned fourth issue, and served two years. The unfinished issue would have contained works by Lithuanian poets, including Tomas Venclova.[3][4]

  1. ^ "SINTAKSIS | Soviet Samizdat Periodicals".
  2. ^ a b c Lygo, Emily (2010). Leningrad Poetry 1953-1975: The Thaw Generation. Russian Transformations: Literature, Thought, Culture. Bern, Switzerland; New York: P. Lang. p. 60. ISBN 978-3-03911-370-5.
  3. ^ a b Komaromi, Ann. "The Samizdat Literary Collection "Sintaksis" and the Rights Movement in the USSR". Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  4. ^ Donskis, Leonidas; Bauman, Zygmunt (2005). Loyalty, Dissent, and Betrayal: Modern Lithuania and East-Central European Moral Imagination. On the boundary of two worlds. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p. 49. ISBN 978-90-420-1727-6.