Russia We Lost: The Pre-Soviet Past and Anti-Soviet Discourse
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Why did Kommersant choose the spelling with a hard sign at the end, was the Cathedral of Christ the Savior restored, and The Barber of Siberia became a blockbuster in modern Russia? What role did memories of the pre-revolutionary past play in the legitimization of today's Russian elites? Pavel Khazanov's book is an attempt to reconstruct the genealogy of anti-Soviet discourse about pre-Soviet history. It examines how, over many years and despite confrontation with each other, such figures as Anna Akhmatova, Grigory Pomerants, Yuri Lotman, Natan Eidelman, and Bulat Okudzhava on the one hand, and Vasily Shulgin, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Soloukhin, and Nikita Mikhalkov on the other, developed a consensus on the appeal of the pre-revolutionary era. The author shows how their vision of this era influenced the ideology of post-Soviet Russia and why many were so fascinated by the image of “the Russia we lost,” which contains a conservative and revanchist charge.
Pavel Khazanov is a professor at Rutgers University, a specialist in the culture of the late USSR and post-Soviet Russia.
Pavel Khazanov is a professor at Rutgers University, a specialist in the culture of the late USSR and post-Soviet Russia.
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