Introduction
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
Year: 2016

Chapter 1 refers to the work of the controversial novelist and opinion-maker Alexander Prokhanov (especially his Crimea [2014]) to highlight momentous recent changes in the ways Russian literature has approached the vexed question of a post-Soviet “Russian identity.” Prokhanov’s books, and the heated debates they have sparked, testify to the decline of postmodernist stances and exemplify the rise of more assertive and politically committed positions recently taken by various writers in discussio