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The discourse of cultural revolution: From avant-garde experiments toward the new subject (Book review: Clark K. Petersburg. Crucible of Cultural Revolution) (OPEN ACCESS)

Shvets A.V.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, ananke2009@mail.ru

Abstract

The paper focuses on the Russian translation of K. Clark’s book «Petersburg. Crucible of Cultural Revolution», published by the New Literary Observer publishing house in 2018. The book centers on the cultural revolution of Russian avant-garde of 1910s-1920s, tracing the movement from early avant-garde experiments toward a project of the «new man». K. Clark contextualizes the cultural revolution by putting it into a wider framework of an ecosystem of socio-political and discursive processes, thus being able to outline major directions of its development and its minor experimental pathways. The book zooms on in performance as a key aesthetic strategy of ante- and post-revolutionary years, mass literature of the transitory period of NEP, and the emergence of the conception of new language in later 1920s.

Keywords

avant-garde; revolution; new man; Katherine Clark

For citing: Shvets A.V. (2020). The discourse of cultural revolution: From avant-garde experiments toward the new subject (Book review: Clark K. Petersburg. Crucible of Cultural Revolution). Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 2 (42): Discourses that frame life, pp. 98-118. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2020.02.07

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