{"id":29072,"date":"2025-09-25T08:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/?p=29072"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:38:48","slug":"stefan-zweig-in-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/en\/stefan-zweig-in-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Zweig in Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Stefan Zweig in Moscow<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29078\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29078\" src=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Stephan-Zweig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Stephan-Zweig.jpg 800w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Stephan-Zweig-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Stephan-Zweig-768x668.jpg 768w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Stephan-Zweig-379x330.jpg 379w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Stephan-Zweig-207x180.jpg 207w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Stephan-Zweig-80x70.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Stefan Zweig by F. X. Setzer, published in 1927<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block;\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0License Creative Commons <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/by.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/nc.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/nd.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12365\" src=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Andreu-cover-696x452-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndreuNavarra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Andreu Navarra<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stefan Zweig<\/strong> was invited to the Soviet Union in September 1928 to take part in the centenary celebrations of <strong>Lev Tolstoy<\/strong>\u2019s birth. He spent two weeks there and wrote a highly admiring account of his experience. What impressed him most was the cultural atmosphere he perceived in every corner of the country. In a hastily penned prelude to his travel notes, Zweig wrote:<br \/>\n\u201cA few lines in haste. Today I visited the <strong>Dostoyevsky Museum<\/strong>, the splendid historical museum, took part in the opening of the <strong>Tolstoy House<\/strong> (my book on Tolstoy is on sale at every street corner for 25 kopecks and hawked like <em>La Hora<\/em> by street vendors). In the afternoon I visited <strong>Boris Pilniak<\/strong>\u2019s house, where many Russians had gathered; afterwards I stopped by the antique shops and took a drive through the streets. Late in the evening I attended a performance of <em>Eugene Onegin<\/em> at the opera, and now, at midnight, I am off to Tula, where I shall arrive tomorrow, Wednesday, at six. Then on to Yasnaya Polyana, and at night once again the sleeper train for the return journey\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Zweig barely stood still: for his first Thursday on Russian soil, no fewer than ten visits and four museums were scheduled. Among the formal receptions was one with Maxim <strong>Gorky<\/strong>, who until the 1930s acted as a kind of ambassador for renowned foreign writers invited by the regime. On Sunday, he travelled to Leningrad, at the invitation of his publisher. What writer would not fall in love with a city where your books are shouted from the street corners and where you are treated with the utmost consideration?<\/p>\n<p>Yet the secret of this success may well lie in the precise timing of Zweig\u2019s arrival. In 1928, the benefits of <strong>Lenin<\/strong>\u2019s New Economic Policy were still visible; <strong>Anatoly Lunacharsky<\/strong> still had a year left as head of the People\u2019s Commissariat for Education and Culture; and 1928 was also the year Trotsky was finally defeated through Stalin\u2019s political machinations. In 1928, few could yet imagine what was to come, particularly from 1934 onwards, when <strong>Kirov<\/strong> was assassinated. <strong>Boris Pilniak<\/strong>, for instance\u2014translated into Spanish by <strong>Andreu Nin<\/strong> in 1931\u2014would be executed in 1938, at the height of Stalin\u2019s purges.<\/p>\n<p>Lunacharsky\u2019s liberal and reformist policies\u2014responsible for the flourishing of the Russian avant-garde and its striking poster art\u2014would be forgotten in the following decade, despite the fact that the same minister had also purged thousands of teachers. The 1930s would be marked by the suicides of poets, and by writers pleading for bread and mercy from the supreme leader. Everything Zweig saw, in one way or another, was on the brink of vanishing. He was aware that <strong>visiting Russia was something of a romantic act of exoticism for those disillusioned with old Europe<\/strong>:<br \/>\n\u201cWhat other journey today could be more interesting and fascinating, more enriching and stirring, than a visit to Russia? While Europe, and especially its great capitals, undergo an egalitarian transformation that renders them increasingly similar to one another, Russia lives a separate, incomparable life. Here, it is not only the material world that captivates our gaze and aesthetic sense\u2014perpetually surprised by architectural depth and a renewed popular energy\u2014but also the spiritual sphere, which takes on unique forms as it sheds its past and projects itself into an equally singular future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>What Zweig most admired was the opening of all the country\u2019s art galleries and the ease with which the working population could access the great museums. Among them, he particularly highlighted the <strong>Tretyakov Gallery<\/strong>, where one could admire as many <strong>works by Van Gogh, Manet, Courbet and Gauguin<\/strong> as in Paris itself:<br \/>\n\u201cTo gain even a fleeting impression of the forty or fifty museums in Moscow would require weeks, if not months; one simply cannot imagine the priceless and fabulous treasures they contain. The Marxist idea that everything belongs to everyone finds in the sphere of art its most eloquent expression\u201d.<br \/>\nPeasants, soldiers, and countless groups of children filled these spaces, thanks to a visionary and democratic concept of cultural management.<\/p>\n<p>The tone in Leningrad was the same:<br \/>\n\u201cAnd here, in this chamber of the <strong>Hermitage<\/strong>, in this space that is princely rather than imperial, in this palace of the tsars, in this city built upon inexpressible wealth and senseless extravagance, one senses that inconceivable tension\u2014unimaginable to the European spirit\u2014that must have existed between those two utterly separate worlds: the world above and the world below, of sacrilegious excess and of unfathomable poverty and the hellish hunger endured by the peasantry\u201d.<br \/>\nA social divide so absolute that only violent rupture could redress it. Towards the end of the book, Zweig returns to social reflection in relation to Tolstoy, wondering how a champion of Christian libertarianism, a principled pacifist, could come to be seen as a forerunner of a clearly statist and hierarchical revolution, built upon the drive for industrial progress. Here Zweig was remarkably prescient when he suggested that Tolstoy\u2019s ideas might have served far better to inspire a figure like <strong>Gandhi<\/strong> than either <strong>Stalin or Lenin<\/strong>. For Tolstoy, the State was Satan, and his concept of revolution was far more spiritual than the Bolshevik thrust.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Zweig allowed himself to be imbued with official optimism, and he expressed a certain understanding of the revolution\u2019s achievements\u2014albeit without the dogmatism that would dominate the 1930s, when intellectuals became deeply polarised between fascism and communism. Zweig attempted to challenge the image of a militarised and ruthless Soviet Union. At the border post of Negoreloye\u2014now in Belarus\u2014he noted:<br \/>\n\u201cNor can I see any of those red guards, described by many of my predecessors on this journey as picturesque, diabolical figures, implacable and bristling with weapons. I see only a couple of officers, calm in demeanour and unarmed\u201d.<br \/>\nSomething must have changed in the following two years, however, for by 1930 Andreu Nin, deposited by the GPU on the Estonian border, was warned that he could be shot by snipers if he attempted to cross no man\u2019s land on foot and unescorted. Or perhaps Zweig failed to notice certain details, or perhaps surveillance was simply very discreet\u2026 Or perhaps the memory of wartime Europe between 1914 and 1920 still lingered in his mind, rendering the Russian frontier comparatively amiable and liberal:<br \/>\n\u201cTwo or three railway lines link Russia to our European world, and each of them possesses a subdued, hesitant rhythm. One recalls border crossings during the war, when only a select few, carefully vetted individuals were allowed to cross those invisible lines separating the states\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He found the streets of Moscow teeming with people. Yet even in this vibrancy, memories of the grim post-war years resurfaced:<br \/>\n\u201cDespite this vitality, there is something in the street that seems muted. It is the buildings, the houses\u2014they have something gloomy and dark about them. The buildings lining this feverish activity are all old and crumbling, like elderly faces, wrinkled, their eyes blind and encrusted. One is reminded of Vienna in 1919\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cThe doorways are dark and hesitant\u201d, the traveller concludes.<\/p>\n<p>Zweig\u2019s articles on his Russian journey were published in Vienna\u2019s <em>Neue Freie Presse<\/em> between 21 October and 6 November 1928\u2014precisely one year after <strong>Walter Benjamin<\/strong> completed his <em>Moscow Diary<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<strong>educational EVIDENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rights:\u00a0<strong>Creative Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Zweig was invited to the Soviet Union in September 1928 to take part in the centenary celebrations of Lev Tolstoy\u2019s birth. He spent two weeks there and wrote a highly admiring account of his experience. 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