Between politics and poetics: Topics of the Crimea in contemporary Russianspeaking naïve poems
Journal: Shagi / Steps
Year: 2022

Naïve poetry, that is, poetry that has not passed through editorial filters, published by the authors on the Internet (on the website stihi.ru), provides unique material for the study of natural interpretations of important political events. The article analyzes poems in which the word “Crimea” is mentioned, from the website stihi.ru, for the period 2000–2019. These poems are processed using the technology of topic modeling. The essence of this technology is that in a large collection there are