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Safeguarding Russian culture as a cultural reality or as a cultural construct? The newsmagazine ‘Illustrated Russia’ and Russian émigré culture in interwar Europe.

This project will study the mainstream Russian émigré newsmagazine, Illiustrirovannaia Rossiia (1924-1939), as a test case for the widely accepted idea that interwar Russian émigré culture first and foremost aspired to safeguard ‘truly’ Russian culture and, hence, identity. Does this assumption hold for the émigré culture as a whole or does it relate to high culture alone?

Date:1 Feb 2016 →  30 Sep 2021
Keywords:cultural identity, newsmagazine, Russian culture, émigré culture, interwar period
Disciplines:Language studies, Literary studies, Humanities and the arts not elsewhere classified