Ilya Kalinin
Associate professor in the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Neprikosnovennyj zapas: Debaty o politike i kul’ture [Emergency ration: debates on politics and culture] published by the New Literary Observer in Moscow. He has recently published on nostalgic modernization, the history of Russian literary criticism, and the Formalist school of literary theory.
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Articles by Ilya Kalinin
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The author argues that the equation of culture and natural resources has become a fundamental metaphor of the official patriotic discourse of identity in contemporary Russia. This conceptualization of the past frames nation building and state construction, the “nostalgic modernization”.
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