Draft:Yefremov's School

Review waiting, please be patient. This may take 6 weeks or more, since drafts are reviewed in no specific order. There are 1,232 pending submissions waiting for review. If the submission is accepted, then this page will be moved into the article space. If the submission is declined, then the reason will be posted here. In the meantime, you can continue to improve this submission by editing normally. Where to get help If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews. If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed. How to improve a draft Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia. Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article. Improving your odds of a speedy review To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags. Add tags to your draft Editor resources Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs Reviewer tools Instructions · What links here · Yefremov's School (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 5 days ago by Kseni-kam (talk: D · +) · Last edited 0 seconds ago

• Comment: Is there some reason this isn't "Yefremov School"? Are there any sources on this topic anywhere in English that we can verify the name with? asilvering (talk) 21:24, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Yefremov's School is a literary movement whose representatives, from the second half of the 1970s, gathered around the editorial board for fantasy literature of the publishing house Molodaya Gvardiya, headed by Yuri Medvedev in 1973-1978 and by Vladimir Shcherbakov (who always denied his connection with the "school") in 1978-1992.

In the first half of the 1970s, Soviet literature, both mainstream and fantasy, experienced a split rooted in cultural-ideological (Westerners — Pochvenniki), ideological (Scientism — New Age) and economic spheres: under the conditions of a planned economy, different groups of writers fought for the volume of publishing plans. Molodaya Gvardiya had a virtual monopoly on publishing fiction, and the publishing houses Detskaya Literatura and Znanie had unofficial quotas for publishing fiction. Under Medvedev's leadership, the so-called Yefremov's School (the term appeared in the next decade) emerged, named in honour of the science fiction writer I. A. Yefremov, who died in 1972. Medvedev claimed to develop the themes of Yefremov's works, especially those related to ancient history and esotericism. Yefremov's School was also the name of the All-Union Creative Association Of Young Fiction Writers of the publishing house Molodaya Gvardiya (existed in 1987-1991), which was opposed by its creators to the "fourth wave" of Soviet fiction associated with the work of Strugatsky.^[1]

In the second half of the 1980s, the Yefremov's School united about 80% of Soviet science fiction writers, science fiction critics, bibliographers, and activists of amateur science fiction clubs.^[2] The literary production of the writers of the Yefremov's School received mostly negative reviews from both Soviet and expatriate critics. Alexander Bushkov, Vasily Golovachev and Yuri Nikitin began their writing careers in the Shcherbakov editorial office of the Molodaya Gvardiya, and Vasily Zvyagintsev began his writing career in the All-Union Creative Association Of Young Fiction Writers.