Cultural Memory and the Anti-Western Utopias of Russian “Futurians”

Abstract

The paper deals with anti-Western motifs in Russian avant-garde culture, especially their refraction in Russian futurism. On the one hand, the tendency is linked to a strategic goal—asserting independent versions of this or that new form of art and, on the other, it coincides with fundamental features of Russian modernism such as archaization, national self-identification and Eastern cultures.

Resource Of Russian Religious And Philosophical Tradition In Constructive Relationship With West

“…Let these ideas are partly true, -says G. Florovsky, -but their specific appearance is absolutely not true. This is not a living Russia, but a personified "idea" (Bobrinskaya, 2017).…”