“Scythians”: Old and New (to the Publication of the Reprint of the Literary and Political Almanac “Scythians”, 1917—1918)

Vladimir Boldin

2020

DOI 10.18254/s207987840008859-3

Data confidence 70 medium

How this score is calculated

It is built from checkable properties of the record itself: whether the article has a DOI, how many independent sources confirmed its data, whether the required fields are filled in, and how recent the latest confirmation is. Disagreement between sources and a missing identifier lower it. A value of 80 or above means the record was published without further checking; 60 to 79 means it is published at reduced confidence, with a manual check advisable. A record verified by an editor by hand is never pushed below 90 by a recalculation. This scores our data about the article, not the article itself.

Abstract

In 2018, for the first time in 101 years in Russia, two issues of the literary and political almanac “Scythians” were reissued under the same cover (1917 — 1st issue; 1918 — 2nd issue). The ideological inspirer of “Scythians” was I. V. Ivanov-Razumnik (1878—1946). Combining on its pages the ideas of outstanding representatives of the Silver age (L. Shestov, V. Bryusov, N. Klyuyev, A. Bely, E. Zamyatin, etc.), the almanac became the quintessence of the “scythianism” ideology. This ideology regarded the Russian revolution as a national anti-bourgeois movement with messianic significance for the whole world. The new reissue of the book was initiated by the writer, Director of the “Lev Gumilev Center” and the leader of the “New Scythians” movement — Pavel Zarifullin. This article is a review of the new reissue of “Scythians”, which includes two literary and political manifestos of generations — the past (old “Scythians”) and the present (“New Scythians”).