686 Russian Poetry After the Cold War (with Stephanie Sandler)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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For decades, the Soviet Union was unfriendly territory for poets and writers. But what happened when the wall fell? Emerging from the underground, the poets reacted with a creative outpouring that responded to a brave new world. In this episode, Jacke talks to Russian poetry scholar Stephanie Sandler about her new book The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound, 1989-2022, which shows how contemporary Russian poetry both expressed and exemplified freedom - and how that initial burst of freedom has responded to subsequent geopolitical developments. Additional listening: 130 The Poet and the Painter - The Great Love Affair of Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani 479 Auden and the Muse of History (with Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb) 501 The Naked World (with Irina Mashinski) The music in this episode is by Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal. Learn more at gabrielruizbernal.com. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:52.3	Each one determined not to die unless the other one did as well.
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