 It was not published from 1942 to 1947 due to the hardships of the second world war.Between 1947 and 1956 it was published as a periodical anthology for young writers.It became increasingly conservative and nationalist over the years, publishing strongly nativist and sometimes xenophobic material during the Khrushchev Thaw (although in 1964 it also published Andrey Voznesensky's long poem "Oza," which was "a favorite among Soviet scientists and other intellectuals," as well as the results of the first Soviet public opinion survey, in which young people complained about their sexual ignorance).