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Russian Nationalism in Nash sovremennik

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If the essence of popular nationalism was the idealized vision of an ethnic ‘Golden Age’, a nostalgic vision of a rural past expressed, primarily in ‘village prose’, as an imaginative representation of the quintessence of a putative ‘Russianness’, this vision was not an idealization in the sense that the writers imagined traditional peasant life to be something other than it was.1 On the contrary, they were themselves largely from peasant stock and were well acquainted with what peasant life was like in Soviet times. The idealization was a literary expression of a duality inherent in the popular nationalist’s view of the Russian nation: the loss-laden, nostalgic evocation of an irrecoverable past, and an intense awareness of the harsh realities of the present.

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Cosgrove, S. (2004). Russian Nationalism in Nash sovremennik. In: Russian Nationalism and the Politics of Soviet Literature. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230006003_2

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