СССР как прием в художественной практике Павла Пепперштейна

Abstract

This article studies the strategies of reclaiming Soviet identity and the Soviet past in literature of the post-Soviet period, including the status of “late Soviet writer.” Against this backdrop, Pavel Pepperstein’s position stands out. For him, late Soviet ideology is interesting as a subset of mystical religious movements. The examination of the USSR as the last phase in three centuries of autocratic Confucian radicalism, or as a mandala that shows an approach, which, on the one hand, uses data from political, cultural, and religious history, and on the other hand, opens up unexpected horizons for their interpretation. This is the essence of Pepperstein’s inspection.