Russian Nationalism and the Politics of Soviet Literature

The Case of Nash sovremennik , 1981-1991

S. Cosgrove

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9781349421459
  9780333802038
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230006003
• Topic: Storia
• Subtopic: Storia dell'Europa orientale

Russian nationalism, increasingly important as the Russian Federation finds its place in the world, is not a new phenomenon. Who were the Russian nationalists before the creation of today's Russia? What were their views? What was their political influence? This book seeks answers to these questions by looking in detail at the last decade of the USSR through the eyes of a group of Russian nationalist intellectuals gathered around the literary journal Nash sovremennik . The author suggests that, in the Twenty-first-century, a specifically Russian type of nationalism, ethnic and statist, could provide the ideological underpinning for a new authoritarianism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• A Note on the Text
• Abbreviations
• 1 Background to the Study
• 2 Russian Nationalism in Nash sovremennik
• 3 The Brezhnev Succession Crisis and the Russian Challenge
• 4 Andropov and the Suppression of Statist Russian Nationalism
• 5 From Chernenko to Gorbachev
• 6 Aleksandr Yakovlev and the ‘Cultural Offensive’
• 7 Ligachev and the Conservative Counter-Offensive
• 8 Chief Editor Kunyaev: From Gorbachev to El’tsin
• 9 Epilogue: Paradoxes of Russian Nationalism
• Appendix 1: Editorial Structures and Policy-Making of the Soviet ‘Thick’ Journal
• Appendix 2: Brief Biographies of Selected Editors and Authors
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index