Code
01D36217
Duration
01 December 2017 → 30 November 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Literatures in Russian
- Humanities and the arts not elsewhere classified
Keywords
globalization
crisis of reading
literature
post-soviet nostalgia
national identity
Russia
Contemporary
English
Russian
Comparative
Language and text analysis
Field research
Cultural politics
Literary canon
Russian literature
Eastern Europe
Literary studies
Area studies
Media
History
Project description
This project explores recent efforts by the Russian state to restore the flowering reading culture of Soviet times. The purpose of this policy is not fighting declining reading figures, but to unite the nation around Russian literature as a symbol of national identity. This research project shows how Russia is ideologically and culturally manifesting itself in a rapidly changing world.