![]() | Critical Theory in Russia and the West Subjects: Area Studies; Language & Literature; Politics & International Relations; Central Asian Russian & Eastern European Studies; Literature; European Politics; Literary/ Critical Theory; Eastern European Politics; The traditional view that the rise of Western theoretical thought in the 1960s and 1970s could be traced back to the Soviet 1920s, once accepted in Russia and the West alike because it directly associated the academic prestige of contemporary Western theory with the intellectual climate of post-revolutionary Russia, is increasingly challenged today. With the gradual retreat in recent years of theory from the high ground of the Western humanities, new work has emerged to suggest unexpected parallels and to undermine others. Alastair Renfrew is Reader in Russian and Director of Research in the School of Modern Languages at Durham University. |
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