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The article presents a comparative reading of Maria Stepanova's book "Pamiati pamiati"/"In Memor of Memory," and Sergei Lebedev's book "Liudi avgusta"/"People of August." Topics discussed include brief background of both Stepanova and Lebedev, major role of the issue of Stalinism in both novels, and two areas of the conceptualization of the relationship between memory and literature.

The article compares the predispositions and circumstances of Russian annexations of Crimea in the years 1783 and 2014. It illustrates the blatant similarities in the official rhetoric observed on the example of literary works from both eras. Primarily, it concerns Gavrila Derzhavin’s ode Na priobretenije Kryma and Chersonida, a narrative poem by Semyon Bobrov, of which both reflect the so-called Greek plan, a political and cultural programme of Catherine the Great. Contemporary works are represented by Krym kakpredčuvstvije, a collection of short stories by Elena Yablonskaya, with poetry reflected including the so-called geopoetics of Igor Sid and his group, as well as other propagandist and nationalist poems by various authors. While in the era of Catherine the Great the focus of the works was on reclaiming Crimea diplomatically and calling up the Russian claims to Ancient and Greek heritage, in our days we see more of a primitive literally propaganda with strong nationalistic elements that relies heavily on communication technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study analyzes literary worlds created by Karl-Markus Gauß and Martin Pollack. With the help of a comparative analysis common features and differences of their conceptualization of Europe are researched. The symbiosis of “literature and knowledge”, which constitutes a genre substance of the authors’ works, serves as a methodological basis. Attention is also paid to literary rendering of space by Pollack and Gauß, including so called “cartographic poetics”. The core of the study is a spacial-semantic analysis of Gottschee (Kočevje) region in today’s Slovenia, which plays an important role in the literary output of both the authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study follows the relationship of the terms "anarchy" and "anarchism" in the reflection of Russian literature, namely from the perspective of cultural sciences. The author provides a synopsis of the basic manifestations of anarchy and anarchism in Russian literature from the 19th century to today and guides the reader through its metamorphoses and transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]