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The New Literary Observer was launched in 1992 as the first post-Soviet journal devoted to literature. Since its inception, the journal has become the leading Russian interdisciplinary publication dedicated to Russian culture in a global context.
The task of NLO is to study and elucidate contemporary culture, as well as to promote Russian cultural theory in the international intellectual community.
The journal includes material of the following nature:
The task of NLO is to study and elucidate contemporary culture, as well as to promote Russian cultural theory in the international intellectual community.
The journal includes material of the following nature:
- articles on the problems, or the history, of the liberal arts and sciences;
- articles devoted to various aspects of the cultural history of Russia and Western Europe;
- unique archive documents (literary texts, letters, memoirs);
- articles, reviews, interviews and essays on issues of contemporary literature;
- thorough bibliographies of works of fiction and the liberal arts and sciences;
- chronicles of scientific and creative life.
contents:
FROM THE EDITORS
THE (NON)IMPERIAL IN TODAY’S SOCIO-HUMANITARIAN REFLECTION
- Willard Sunderland. Revisiting the Imperial Past: History and Reinterpretation (transl. from English by Arseniy Kumankov)
- Frederick Cooper. Decolonizations, Colonizations, and More Decolonizations: The End of Empire in Time and Space (transl. from English by Ksenia Gusarova)
- Antonio Negri, Danilo Zolo. Empire and the Multitude: A Dialogue on the New Order of Globalization (transl. from English by Nina Stawrogina)
THE EMPIRE AND ITS ALTERNATIVES IN RUSSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
WAR AND IMPERIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
(NON)IMPERIALITY IN THE RUSSIAN PUBLIC SPHERE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT
- Irina Shevelenko. Anti-Imperial Visions of the Revolutionary Epoch (1900—1910s)
- Denis Sdvizhkov. Did Russians Want War? War and the Imperial Consciousness in 18th Century Russia
- Mikhail Velizhev. Towards the History of the “Moscow Fronda”: Sergei Stroganov, A. de Tocqueville and the Unintended Consequences of the Chaadayev’s Scandal
- Timur Atnashev. The Russian Nation after the Russian Empire? A Model for the Setup of the Liberal Chronotope in the 21st Century
THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PROJECT IN RUSSIA
THE IMPERIAL AND THE NON-IMPERIAL IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE
- Ilya Vinitsky. The Shield of “Self-Standing”: Did Pushkin Coin a Key Term of Russian Nationalism?
- Evgeny Dobrenko. Soviet Multinational Literature as an Imperial Project and as a Challenge to the Empire
- Maria Maiofis, Ilya Kukulin. Late Soviet Literature on Ethnic Deportations in Controversy with the Soviet Novel of Education
- Andrey Ranchin. Joseph Brodsky: Overcoming the Imperial
- Mark Lipovetsky. Тhe Underground — an Alternative Model for Russian Culture?
- Kevin M.F. Platt. Russophone Poetic Anti-Empires: Models of Decolonization
- Kirill Ospovat. Ruins: Russian Philology in the Face of Catastrophe
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Alexey Vasilyev, Viktoria Vasilyeva. Empire, Liberalism, Nationalism: Overcoming Intellectual Stereotypes (Review of the books: Rampton, Vanessa. Liberal’nye idei v tsarskoy Rossii. Academic Studies Press, Bibliorossika, 2024; Rabow-Edling, Susanna. Liberalism in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: State, Nation, Empire. Routledge, 2019)
- Abram Reitblat. Light and Shadows of Russian Anarchism (Review of Books of Recent Years)
- Evgeniy Savitskiy. Ambivalence of Soviet Internationalism in Politics and Cultural Practice (Review of the books: Kirasirova Masha. The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union’s Anticolonial Empire. Oxford University Press, 2024; Koivunen Pia. Performing Peace and Friendship: The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy. De Gruyter, Oldenbourg, 2022; Edgar, Adrienne. Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia. Cornell University Press, 2022)
- Jan Levchenko. A Decolonial Perspective of Formalism in The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar (Review of the book: Aydinyan, Anna. Formalists against Imperialism: The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar and Russian Orien- talism. University of Toronto Press, 2022)
CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE
- Ksenia Gusarova. “Decolonialization in Focus” Seminar Cycle (Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, 3 February—31 March 2023)
- Mikhail Kurenkov. “Republicanism: Theory, History, Contemporary Practices” All-Russian Conference (Res Publica Research Center, European University at St. Petersburg, 15—16 December 2023)