Natalia Bakshayeva

PUSHKIN AND THE MUZHIKS REVISITED: Towards the sociology of the Pushkin’s Narodnost and the History of the Mass Reading of Classics in the 1920s

This article focuses on the problem of appropriating classical literary heritage within socialist (“proletarian”) culture in the 1920s and 1930s. Over the years, this problem was characterized by varying degrees of theoretical and methodological pluralism in approaches to its resolution. However, by the late 1920s, pol...