Russian postmodernism
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'''Russian postmodernism''' refers to the [[culture|cultural]], [[art|artistic]], and [[philosophy|philosophical]] condition in [[Russia]] since the downfall of the [[Soviet Union]] and [[dialectical materialism]]. With respect to statements about post-Soviet philosophy or [[sociology]], the term is primarily used by non-Russians to describe the state of [[economic]] and [[political]] uncertainty they observe since the fall of [[communism]] and the way this uncertainty affects Russian identity. 'Postmodernism' is, however, a term often used by Russian [[literary criticism|critics]] to describe contemporary Russian art and [[Russian literature|literature]].
==Artistic origins==
In art, postmodernism entered the Soviet Union in the [[1960]]s after the end of the [[Stalinism|Stalinist]] move toward liberalization with the advent of the [[Russian conceptualism|Russian conceptualist]] movement. Beginning as an underground political-artistic move against the use of [[Socialist realism]] as a method of social control and becoming a full-fledged movement with the [[Moscow Conceptualists]], Russian conceptualism used the [[symbolism]] of Socialist realism against the Soviet government.
==See also==
[[History of the Soviet Union (1953-1985)]] -- [[History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991)]] -- [[History of post-Soviet Russia]] -- [[Viacheslav Kuritsyn]] -- [[Mark Lipovetsky]] -- [[Modernism]] -- [[Postmodernism]] -- [[Russian literature]] -- [[Socialist realism]] -- [[Soviet Nonconformist Art]]
==External links==
*[http://www.emory.edu/INTELNET/af.rus.postmodernism.html The Origins and Meaning of Russian Postmodernism], [[Mikhail Epstein]]
*[http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1365 Russian Postmodernism] at [http://www.litencyc.com/ Literery Encyclopedia]
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