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Focuses on the debate about utopian possibilities for Soviet society during the glasnost' years, 1985-1991.
Interview about symposium, "Re-envisioning the Black Sea"
Please mark your calendar for a March 29-30 symposium at the University of Virginia on “Re-envisioning the Black Sea in Literature and Historiography: Backwater or oikoumenē?” In this moment of Russia’s war against Ukraine, imperial ambitions are once again intruding on the Black Sea region. With the premise that imagining comes first in scripting...
“The Imagined Province” investigates the shifts in what the “idea of the province” in the period of world war and the Russian revolution and civil war. I argue that the mental and emotional valence of Russia’s map changed markedly over these nine years as regionalist and provincial pride came into literary culture, urging a fresh view of central Ru...
Investigates the survival in the Soviet era of Russian Orthodox Christian spirituality in the literary art of Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak.
In the 1990s polls showed that the majority of Russians hoped to live in a post-Soviet country governed not only by a strong state but by the genuine rule of law. What happened to make Russian public opinion turn—or seem to turn—in the course of a few short years toward what might be called an ultranationalist, and sometimes lawless, “make Russia g...
Contemporary Russia is often viewed as a centralised regime based in Moscow, with dependent provinces, made subservient by Putin's policies limiting regional autonomy. This book, however, demonstrates that beyond this largely political view, by looking at Russia's regions more in cultural and social terms, a quite different picture emerges, of a Ru...
The essays collected in this forum discuss the geopolitical legacy of the Russian Revolution of 1917, one of the most momentous political events of the twentieth century. From a range of different academic disciplines and perspectives, the authors consider how the profound transformations in society and politics were refracted through space and geo...
This article examines the process by which a historically unsung provincial city develops identity and initiative. Two parallel processes appear to be at work. On the one hand, officials in the city, regional, and central government and in the Orthodox Church are creating a “brand” for the Tiumen’ city and region. On the other, we find grassroots e...
Russian literature has a reputation for gloomy texts, especially during the late nineteenth century. This volume argues that a 'fin-de-siècle' mood informed Russian literature long before the chronological end of the nineteenth century, in ways that had significant impact on the development of Russian realism. Some chapters consider ideas more read...
This article examines the articulation of sibiriak identity in the early 21st century. This time is particularly important because the current Russian government has made a point of curtailing the regional autonomy of the Yeltsin years. Drawing on regional news sources, Internet blogs, and writings by prominent Siberian public intellectuals, this a...
This chapter examines the theme of the periphery—and particularly the Black Sea and its symbolic meanings—in a number of Liudmila Ulitskaia's stories and two major novels, Medea and Her Children (Medeia i ee deti, 1996) and The Kukotsky Case (Kazus Kukotskogo, 2001). Ulitskaia focuses on the life of all kinds of peripheries and their crucial, if ig...
This chapter examines the polarization of positions in the debate about identity and the central role that both the imagined Caucasus and the most intransigent of Caucasus ethnic groups, the Chechens, have played in sharpening the hostility between competing variants of post-Soviet Russian identity. It argues that the Russian government has used th...
This chapter begins a discussion of post-Soviet Russian identity and its self-definition through imagined geographies by introducing the neo-Eurasianist ideas espoused by Aleksandr Dugin. Stung by Russia's post-Soviet regression into the background of world events, Dugin has vociferously asserted outrageous ideas about Russian identity, using neo-i...
This chapter focuses on the themes crucial to Viktor Pelevin's Chapaev and the Void, the deconstruction of the Soviet mass psyche and the search for identity. Set partly in a Moscow mental hospital, Pelevin's Chapaev parody lends itself to a psychoanalytic challenge to the repressive neo-Eurasianist view of human nature. Here the focus is on the co...
This concluding chapter continues the discussion on imagined geographies and the separation of the center from its western and southern peripheries, pointing toward more recent developments in constructing a Russian identity. Since 2000 this identity debate appears to have been increasingly co-opted by various ultraconservative dreams, among them D...
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors—whether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical images of center, periphery, and border—have be...
This chapter investigates the literary and critical deconstruction of Moscow, which opened the dialogue about Russian identity. Starting in the 1980s Moscow, the Soviet capital and imperial hub of the communist universe, the so-called second world, was a center starting to worry about its increasingly peripheral nature. The deconstruction of Moscow...
This introductory chapter considers the links between spatial discourse and national identity in post-Soviet Russia. Since the early 1990s powerfully opposing views about what it means to be “Russian” have taken shape. Some focus nostalgically on reinstating Moscow as the imperial center, while others apply “eccentric” ideas of margin, periphery, a...
While in the twentieth century English‐language critics proclaimed the death of the novel, in twentieth‐century Russian literary culture this genre enjoyed a dominant position. The novel, as defined by its most famous Russian theorist, Mikhail bakhtin , is a polyphonic genre characterized by the ideological and stylistic counterpoint of multiple “s...
In the nineteenth century, literary criticism first developed into an autonomous, professional discipline in the universities. This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the vast field of literary criticism between 1830 and 1914. In over thirty essays written from a broad range of perspectives, international scholars examine th...
One of the dominant traits of the old Soviet regime was its unwillingness to confront the serious moral shortcomings of the Soviet past. Until the perestroika years of the late 1980s, when President Mikhail Gorbachev challenged Soviet citizens to "fill in the blank pages" of Soviet history, it was a regime with a singularly bad conscience.1 The bad...
1. Bakhtin writes, "Each separate utterance is individual, of course, but each sphere in which language is used develops its own relatively stable types of these utterances. These we may call speech genres" ("Speech Genres" 60).
2. The term "writing culture" was first used in Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, edited by anthr...
Aleksandr Panikin's vision of entrepreneurship in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Copyright held by translator Edith W. Clowes, typescript licensed to KU Scholarworks by translator for the purpose of open access.
In his work as both philosopher and poet, Vladimir Solov'ev is motivated by seemingly contradictory desires: to apprehend in the world a higher, mystical "total–unity" that lends coherence and meaning to our lives, and to assert the validity of otherness, of the varieties of individual experience in this world. Throughout Solov'ev struggles with th...
Beyond Metafiction deals with metafictional texts from that tense transitional stage in Soviet literary history, the late 1920s. All were written by fellow traveling authors at various stages of accepting the new aesthetic of social command that preceded Socialist Realism as official literary policy. David Shepherd's rather enormous goal is "to ask...
University of Kansas) "These essays have helped me bear [the last eight years] by placing myself in a broader European cultural space. [This space] has not yet been acknowledged by most of my fellow citizens as an integral part of themselves, many aspects of [its] openness are still traumatic, but I am by far not the only one who lives in it" —Mikh...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1981. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 252-274). Microfilm. s
2005 Hall Center Faculty Seminar lecture on "Capitalism and Culture." Discusses Aleksandr Panikin's (1950- ) vision of entrepreneurship in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Introduction to Edith W. Clowes translation from Russian to English of Panikin's book Private Wealth--National Vision: The Memoirs of a New Russian Entrepreneur. Copyright held by Edith W. Clowes, licensed to KU Scholarworks digital repository for open access.
