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Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market After Socialism

Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market After Socialism

Gorski, Bradley A.

Hardcover

Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Literary CriticismGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1501779796
ISBN13: 9781501779794
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: Mar 15 2025
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Cultural Capitalism explores Russian literature's eager embrace of capitalism in the post-Soviet era. When the Soviet Union fell, books were suddenly bought and sold as commodities. Russia's first bestseller lists brought attention and prestige. Even literary prizes turned to the market for legitimacy. The rise of capitalism entirely transformed both the economics and the aesthetics of Russian literature. By reconstructing the market's influence on everything from late-Soviet paper shortages to the prose of neoimperialism, Cultural Capitalism reveals Russian literature's exuberant hopes for and deep disappointments in capitalism. Only a free market, it was hoped, could cure endemic book deficits and liberate literature from ideological constraints. But as the market came to dominate literature, it imposed an ideology of its own, one that directed literary development for decades.

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