The dissident is dead. Long live the dissident – Boris Akunin and popular literature as counterculture under Putinism

This paper explores the reappearance of the dissident in Russian contemporary literature followingPutin’s rise to power, focussing in particular on how the country’s formerly highbrow dissident counterculture is now moving closer to the realm of popular culture. Tracing the link between the intellig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anne Liebig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2018-06-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/2773