The Market
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23578684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bradley A Gorski (0000-0002-3697-0581, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 388-406 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | New Cambridge History of Russian Literature (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108655620.023 |
| OpenAlex | W4405900458 |
| ISBN | 9781108655620 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
A capitalist market has been part of modern Russian literature since at least the early nineteenth century. Even during the Soviet era, the market was never entirely abolished. But when socialism fell in 1991, capitalism rushed in. This chapter focuses on the economic, social, and aesthetic consequences of the market in post-Soviet Russian literature. The book market boomed just as thick journals and legacy critics lost cultural authority, and as readers, publishers, and writers were pulled towards bestselling imports, largely western pulp. Drawn by success and fascinated by new forms, many authors innovated genre conventions, authorial performance, and audience interaction, using misdirection, mystification, and online and social media, among other strategies. Others mobilised the terms of capitalism to mount a critique of the illusory values of the new market society.
Business · Comparative and World Literature · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Soviet and Russian History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |