Safeguarding Russian culture as a cultural reality or as a cultural construct? The case of the news magazine Illustrated Russia Universiteit Gent
This paper will present some results of my PhD research on the mainstream Russian émigré news magazine Illustrated Russia (Illiustrirovannaia Rossiia, henceforth IR). IR is the ideal test case for the widely accepted idea that interwar Russian émigré culture was largely a preservationist culture, aimed at safeguarding pre-revolutionary and thus truly Russian culture and, hence, Russian identity. The Paris-based magazine, which ran from 1924 ...