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People of August. Sergei Lebedev on the Russian Transformation of the 1990s

Summary/Abstract: Since 2010, Sergei Lebedev has been pursuing a wide-ranging literary and journalistic project. Central concept of this project is the memory of Soviet and post-Soviet crimes understood as an ethical imperative: an active individual effort (confronting the difficult history of one’s own family) and a social one (demanding institutional solutions). The article analyses Lebedev’s novel People of August (2016), which is set between 1991 and 1999, in the context of a discussion of the effectiveness of Russian post-Soviet transit. The writer unequivocally argues that the transition did not happen – primarily due to the lack of an explicit symbolic policy.

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