Magazine "Вопросы литературы" in 1961.

I will be very pleased to fulfill the request of the editorial board of the magazine "Literary Thought" and tell you about the plans of our magazine. Recently, "Questions of Literature" published a similar statement by the editor-in-chief of our related literary organ in Bulgaria, Dr. P. Zarev, and the exchange of this kind of information is, in my opinion, a practical implementation of our literary contact. We can hope - things are going so well that Soviet and Bulgarian critics and literary scholars will not only be better informed about what has been done by each other, but will also more often participate in the common solution of certain research problems. That is why it is all the more important to know what problems interest each of the two countries. Our work this year will be marked by preparations for the upcoming XXII Congress of the CPSU. Since the congress will review an important historical period and adopt a new program of the party - the program of building communism - this obliges literary figures to understand the path of its development, to think more deeply about the laws of the construction of the great art of communism, about the distinctive features of this art. That is why the section "On a Contemporary Theme", with which each issue of our magazine opens, should be not only sufficient in volume, but also acutely problematic, including articles of a generalizing nature, analyzing the process of literary development in the conditions of victorious socialism. Introductory articles are planned in each issue on the work of critics and literary scholars in contemporary conditions; the titles: "Criticism and the Ideological Struggle", "Criticism and Life", Socialist Aesthetics - at a New Level", "Criticism and the Aesthetic Education of the People". The articles in the section "On a Contemporary Theme" should examine what literature has already achieved and outline further paths for a deeper artistic understanding of life, for higher mastery. Our plan includes works on the following topics: the in-depth reflection of the contemporary theme in literature (V. Survilo), labor and man (by M. Kuznetsov), combative Soviet humanism and abstract, contemplative humanism (V. Ozerov), the problem of building a new person in literary works (V. Baskakov), the moral and ethical theme in art (S. Koritnaya), Literature and village life (F. Svetov), ​​the search for new forms in art (S. Gaysaryan), the civic nature of young poetry (R. Kopilova), etc. In addition, reviews of the state of individual literary genres will be published: prose (T. Trifonova), journalism (V. Litvinov), etc. In a number of articles and publications we intend to develop the important topic of the party nature of literature and to show with concrete facts how fruitful the party's Leadership of Literature is, the new forms and methods that the party is applying with enormous benefit in today's conditions. In general, the magazine sees its task in analyzing those new features and peculiarities of the literary process and the entire course of literary life, which developed especially strongly precisely in the period of our life, marked by the decisions of the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU.