Akopyan, K. Z. Staliniana in the Light of Sufferings of a Creative Personality: Thinking about Benedikt Sarnov’s Book ‘Stalin and Writers’

Abstract: The article represents the author’s thoughts on and about a four-volume book written by Benedikt Sarnov. Giving a high approval of this fundamental work, the author of the article tries to define the genre the book is written in. As a result, he finds not only literature features, but also signs of cultural studies, historical and cultural research as well as a novel, many-act tragedy, detective, guidelines in history and Russian culture of 1920–1950th in general and literature in particular. The center of the author’s discussion is the question about the nature and peculiarities of Staliniana. Based on the author Staliniana is a very complex cultural phenomenon which has played a very negative and even destroying role for the Russian culture. Such discussion is topical because it does not only still remain in modern Russian culture but it has also been very like to retain many of its features lately.

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