Literature of the Americas Literature of the Americas 2541-7894 2542-243X IWL RAS Articles Waldo Frank and the USSR 2017 Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 The article examines the Soviet reception of the American writer and political activistThe article examines the Soviet reception of the American writer and political activistWaldo Frank, explores the evolution of his views on the events that took place in SovietRussia in 1920–40s, provides a systematization of the main publications dedicated tothe author that can be found in the periodicals of the time. Archival materials help to reconstructSoviet publishing policy towards Waldo Frank and recreate the writer’s imageformed by the Soviet press. The most efficient period of his cooperation with the USSRfalls on the turn of the decade 1920/1930; after 1936 his byline vanishes from the pagesof the Soviet periodicals. 1. Abramov, A. “Novaia kniga amerikanskogo pisatelia Uoldo Frenka.” Literaturnaia gazeta (Oct. 17, 1932). 2. Abramov, A. “Uoldo Frenk — ‘Smert' i rozhdenie Devida Markenda.’” Internatsional'naia literatura 12 (1936): 205–207. 3. “Andre Zhid v Sovetskoi Strane.” Internatsional'naia literatura 8 (1936): 149–151. 4. Cowley, M. “Pilgrim’s Progress.” The New Republic (17 Oct. 1934): 279. 5. Dinamov, S.S. “Roman o krizise burzhuaznogo soznaniia.” Oktiabr' 3 (1936): 207–215. 6. 7. Frank, W.D. Dawn in Russia: the Record of a Journey. N.Y., London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1932. 8. Frank, W.D. Memoirs of Waldo Frank, ed. by A. Trachtenberg, introd. by L. Mumford. Amherst (MA): University of Massachusetts Press, 1973. 9. Frank, W.D. “Russian Pilgrimage.” The New Republic (6, 20, 27 July; 3 August 1932): 196–198, 253–255, 288–289, 308–309. 10. Frank, W.D. “Russian River.” Virginia Quarterly Review 8:3 (1932). Online at http://dj9frc12kq0lk.cloudfront.net/essay/russian-river  11. Frank, W.D. “The Moscow Trials.” The New Republic (12 May 1937): 19. 12. Frank, W.D. “The Volga.” The Harpers Monthly (June 1932): 84–92. 13. Frenk, U. “Dolg pisatelia.” In Mezhdunarodnyi kongress v zashchitu kul'tury, ed. by I.K. Luppol. Moscow: GIKhL Publ., 1936: 233–241. 14. Frenk, U. “Dolg pisatelia.” Literaturnyi kritik 8 (1935): 30–33. 15. Frenk, U. “Pis'mo v redaktsiiu.” Internatsional'naia literatura 9 (1936): 182. 16. Frenk, U. “Smert' i rozhdenie Devida Markenda. Otryvki iz romana”, transl. by E. Kalashnikova. Internatsional'naia literatura 3 (1935): 3–44. 17. Frenk, U. “Smert' i rozhdenie Devida Markenda”, transl. by E. Kalashnikova. Moscow: GIKhL Publ., 1936. 18. Gold, M. “V boiakh za peredovuiu literaturu SShA.” Internatsional'naia literatura 6 (1941): 142–157. 19. “Holy Russia.” The Seven Arts 2:1 (1917): 60–61. 20. Lann, E.L. “Essei ob Uol'do Frenke.” Internatsional'naia literatura 12 (1935): 69–85. 21. Lann, E.L. “Literatura sovremennoi Ameriki. Val'do Frenk.” Novyi mir 2 (1928): 237–249. 22. Nemirovskaia, O. “Navstrechu realizmu.” Literaturnyi Leningrad (6 Jun, 1936) 23. “Polemika Uoldo Frenka s Malkolmom Kauli.” Internatsional'naia literatura 3 (1935): 140–142. 24. Popova, V.Iu. “‘Rassvet v Rossii’ U. Frenka: Sovetskii Soiuz glazami amerikanskogo puteshestvennika.” Izvestiia Iuzhnogo federal'nogo universiteta. Filologicheskie nauki 2 (2017): 18–25. 25. Shneider, I. “Pis'mo iz SShA.” Internatsional'naia literatura 2 (1941): 228–229. 26. “Vstupitel'naia stat'ia redaktsii.” Internatsional'naia literatura 5 (1933): 3–4.