Kevin M. F. Platt is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. He works on representations of history in Russia, contemporary Russian poetry, global Russian culture, and literary and cultural theory. His most recent book is Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths.
Kevin M. F. Platt
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Writing on Public Books
Dress-Up Games with Russian History
In 2002, the Kremlin-affiliated youth group Moving Together staged a public protest on Moscow’s Theater Square at which they threw the works of several prominent Russian postmodernist authors into an outsized papier-mâché toilet. In particular, they accused Vladimir Sorokin, who had achieved great acclaim in the preceding decade for his rather dense brand of conceptualist […]
