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Part 1 of the book deals with changes in Russian literary historiography and secondary-school literary education in the post-Soviet years. I discuss shifts in the literary canon and trends in textbook writing, against the background of social and political developments in the country from the 1990s to the 2010s. As will appear, the changes that we see in literary histories and textbooks, and the debates that have taken place around the concept of literary history per se, serve as evidence of recurrent and dramatic turns in the treatment of the historical past (both distant and recent), the present-day situation, and the prospective future development of the country.
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See: Obzor istorii slavianskikh literatur (Survey of Slavic literatures, 1865); Kharakteristika literaturnykh mnenii ot 1820 do 1850-kh godov (Characteristics of literary opinions from 1820 to the 1850s, 1890); Istoriia russkoi literatury (History of Russian literature, 4 volumes 1898–1899).
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Chernyshevsky (1828–1889), Pypin’s cousin, was one of the leaders of the revolutionary democrats of the 1860s.
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For Veselovsky’s “historical poetics,” see, for example, Veselovsky (1940).
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See: Yuri Tynyanov, Dostoevskii i Gogol: k teorii parodii (Dostoevsky and Gogol: Toward a theory of parody, 1921); Arkhaisty i novatory (Archaizers and innovators, 1929).
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Literaturnyi fakt, 1924.
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The semiotic school of thought included such scholars as Vyacheslav Ivanov, Aleksander Pyatigorsky, Vladimir Toporov, and Boris Uspensky.
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For example, Alexander Uzhankov, who will be discussed below.
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For types of literary histories, see, for example, Isupov (1997).
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Oshukov, M. (2024). Historical Introduction. In: Steinby, L., Kalnačs, B., Oshukov, M., Parente-Čapková, V. (eds) The Politics of Literary History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18724-7_2
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