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Literature, History and Identity in Post-soviet Russia, 1991-2006 (Paperback)
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Literature, History and Identity in Post-soviet Russia, 1991-2006 (Paperback)
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This book analyses the relationship between literature, history and
politics in post-Soviet Russia. It explores the impact of the
collapse of the USSR on Russian literature and culture and the
changing content and reception of fiction on historical themes
under Presidents Yeltsin and Putin. It discusses the value of
various theoretical concepts, such as postmodernism, trauma,
nostalgia, and the notion of discourse as power, in analysing
post-Soviet historical fiction. The book shows that Russian
society's confrontation with its past has remained one of the main
themes of Russian culture during the period 1991-2006.
Notwithstanding the gradual decline of the literature of
sensational disclosure associated with Gorbachev's peresiroika, a
more oblique investigation of many aspects of Russian and Soviet
history and an interest in the philosophy of history have continued
to be significant preoccupations of post-Soviet culture. Individual
and family history continue to be explored in memoirs and
autobiographical writings, while the history and destiny of Russia
have been passionately debated in literary journals and the media,
as Russians search for a new 'national idea' to fill the vacuum
left by the collapse of communism. This study suggests that there
is a remarkable continuity between post-Soviet literature and
pre-revolutionary Russian literature and thought.
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