К вопросу о политике модернизма в России. Введение в тему

Abstract

This article traces some of the conceptual origins that lie at the basis of the politics of International Modernism and provides relevant initial theoretical definitions along with a detailed bibliographical survey. Modernist policies appear to be inseparable from their pragmatic stance, as is evident throughout the movement's history. This contribution briefly introduces three essays that are discussed in the current volume, and puts them into a wider cultural and historical context. They tackle the personal idiosyncratic politics of Uber-Modernist Andrey Belyi, the complicated discourse of degeneration and decadence in Russian Symbolist journals, and finally, the complex matter of the insurgent White Movement and the involvement of Sergei Sokolov-Krechetov.