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1.9 - Postmodernism

from History 1 - Movements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2024

By
Ilya Kukulin
Edited by
Simon Franklin ,
Rebecca Reich  and
Emma Widdis
Simon Franklin
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Rebecca Reich
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Emma Widdis
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

Russian Postmodernism was a specific cultural trend that emerged in the late 1940s and early 1950s before gaining prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s due to changing political and economic conditions in the USSR. This chapter assesses the applicability of existing theories of Postmodernism to Soviet culture. According to David Harvey and Fredric Jameson, Postmodernist art is a product of the conditions of late capitalism, yet this designation evidently cannot be applied to the Soviet Union. The chapter therefore outlines the specific historical, economic, and mental conditions that gave rise to Postmodernist cultural transformation in the Soviet context. At the same time, it offers an overview of the main authors and movements within Russian Postmodernism.

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Russian postmodernismtheories of Postmodernismuncensored literatureMoscow ConceptualismLianozovo Group
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The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature , pp. 164 - 183
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Beumers, Birgit, and Lipovetsky, Mark, Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama (Bristol: Intellect, 2009).Google Scholar
Chernetsky, Vitaly, Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007).Google Scholar
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Lipovetsky, Mark, Postmodern Crises: From Lolita to Pussy Riot, Ars Rossica (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2017).Google Scholar
Lipovetsky, Mark (ed.), ‘Russian poetry in the 2000s–2010s’, special issue, Russian Studies in Literature 54.1–3 (2018).Google Scholar
Noordenbos, Boris, Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian Identity, Studies in European Culture and History (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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