Literaturnaia Rossiia. Sbornik sovremennoi russkoi prozy. Pod redaktsiei Vladimira Lidina. I [all published] M., 'Novye vekhi', 1924. 403 p., bibliography, [28 reproductions of contemporary Russian Soviet and émigré writers, portraits] €250
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Early anthology supplemented with bio-bibliographical essays of twenty eight contemporary Russian writers, including émigré writers. The anthology was compiled in 1923 by a prolific writer and Erenburg´s close associate, Vladimir Germanovich Lidin, pseud. [Woldemar Gomberg (1894 - 1979 ) shortly after his return to Soviet Russia. Among contributors are Andrei Belyi, S.Budatsev, S.Grigor´ev, Evg.Zamiatin, Efim Zozulia, Mikh. Zoshchenko, Vsevolod Ivanov, Aleksandr Iakovlev, Vs.Ivanov, Iv. Kasatkin, Val. Kataev, Mikh. Kozyrev, Leonid Leonov, Vladimir Lidin, I. Liashko, A. Malyshkin., A.Neverov, N. Nikitin, A. Novikov - Priboi, Bor. Pil´niak, Aleksei Remizov, Panteleimon Romanov, A. Seifulina, Iurii Slezkin, Andrei Sobol´Konst.Fedin, Ol´ga Forsh, M. Shaginian, I.Erenburg Al. Iakovlev. For more than a decade it was considered as the best antholology of contemporary Russian literature.It was critisized by Proletkult critics and in 1930s it was banned for circulation. Biobibliographical essays, compiled by Lidin are still of greater value for researchers.

See: Shraye, Maxim An Anthology of Jewish-Russian literature: 1801 - 1953 [...] pp.247 - 254