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Russian Popular History in Fact and Fiction: Three Contemporary Styles1

Russian Popular History in Fact and Fiction: Three Contemporary Styles1 COMMENTARY/COMMENTAIRE HUGH RAGSDALE (Tuscaloosa, AL, U.S.A.) RUSSIAN POPULAR HISTORY IN FACT AND FICTION: THREE CONTEMPORARY STYLES1 ... without a deep insight into modern Soviet literature and art, which have become a political battlefield, no Soviet stud- ies are possible. Mikhail Agurskii In the decade and a half prior to glasnost', the Russian public in the Soviet Union demonstrated a conspicuously large appetite for the subject matter of Russian history, an appetite so poorly served by the conventional establishment of Soviet historians that readers sought satisfaction of it in a new kind of unconvention- ally popular historical literature. This literature is well known to Soviet citizens and Soviet 6migr6s, but it has been almost entirely ignored in the publications of Western Slavicists.2 In fact, we have something to learn from it about public reading tastes, Russian popular culture and the forms of history and literature in which they are reflected. This article reviews three styles of this wave of popular literature in the works of three authors who per- sonify them. 1. I would like to thank the International Research Exchanges Board for a GIST Grant (Grant for Individual Study and Travel) and the Office of Academic Affairs and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Soviet and Post Soviet Review Brill

Russian Popular History in Fact and Fiction: Three Contemporary Styles1

Ragsdale, Hugh
The Soviet and Post Soviet Review , Volume 17 (1): 281 – Jan 1, 1990
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© 1990 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.1163/187633290X00100
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COMMENTARY/COMMENTAIRE HUGH RAGSDALE (Tuscaloosa, AL, U.S.A.) RUSSIAN POPULAR HISTORY IN FACT AND FICTION: THREE CONTEMPORARY STYLES1 ... without a deep insight into modern Soviet literature and art, which have become a political battlefield, no Soviet stud- ies are possible. Mikhail Agurskii In the decade and a half prior to glasnost', the Russian public in the Soviet Union demonstrated a conspicuously large appetite for the subject matter of Russian history, an appetite so poorly served by the conventional establishment of Soviet historians that readers sought satisfaction of it in a new kind of unconvention- ally popular historical literature. This literature is well known to Soviet citizens and Soviet 6migr6s, but it has been almost entirely ignored in the publications of Western Slavicists.2 In fact, we have something to learn from it about public reading tastes, Russian popular culture and the forms of history and literature in which they are reflected. This article reviews three styles of this wave of popular literature in the works of three authors who per- sonify them. 1. I would like to thank the International Research Exchanges Board for a GIST Grant (Grant for Individual Study and Travel) and the Office of Academic Affairs and

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Published: Jan 1, 1990

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