Towards the Problem of Russian Cultural Continuity: Thematic Cluster Introduction

Abstract

This paper introduces a thematic cluster derived from the conference ‘A Culture of (Dis)Continuity? Russian Cultural Debates in Historical Perspective’, held at the University of Central Lancashire, England, in May 2016. It maps the place of this vast, diverse, and increasingly relevant topic in current debates by situating it within the polemics of a broader nature – of the existing methodological approaches to studying cultures and their evolutions. It then elucidates the contribution of this ‘(dis)continuity’ cluster to the existing research, with a focus on Russian literary discourse.