According to the author, the classical Russian literature remains completely unread by a majority of population in this country. The reason for that is that it is well "hidden" behind revolutionary mantras and оценками. The author explores the revolutionary liberal literary criticism as...

This paper seeks to make sense of the transformation of identity in post-Soviet Russia by exploring the debates surrounding the social category 'intelligentsia'. I argue that the concept of intelligentsia should be seen as both a source of collective identity and a rhetorical resource in the...