World Literature Today
online - in library use Literature Division RPL
Twenty Years after the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Russian and East European Literature Today
Emily D. Johnson
nov./dec. 2011
"When we first began work on this special section devoted to post-Soviet literature, what we were trying to commemorate seemed very clear. We wanted to take stock of all the ways in which East European literature and culture had changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union in late December 1991. As a result of this truly transformative political event, new nation-states had arisen, many of which quickly moved to shake off the legacy of decades of Sovietization and, in some cases, centuries of Russification by promulgating new laws that promoted the use of national languages (Ukrainian, Latvian, Estonian . . .) in education and culture. Place names shifted and new, national monuments replaced Soviet-era commemorative markers in many countries. Over the course of the last twenty years, these changes and a wave of new construction have rendered many East European cities almost unrecognizable. Cultural norms and beliefs, holiday rituals, modes of communication, state symbolism, and popular historical narratives have all altered in fundamental, obvious ways."...
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