UPADEK ZSRR I PROBLEMY POSTSOWIECKIEJ ROSJI W WYBRANYCH UTWORACH LITERATURY ROSYJSKIEJ
The Collapse of the USSR and the Problems of Post-soviet Russia in Selected Works of Russian Literature

Summary/Abstract: This article attempts to identify new trends and themes that have emerged in Russian literature following the collapse of the Soviet Union. This aim has been attempted by drawing on the works of Viktor Pelevin, Tatiana Tolstoy, Sergei Lebedev, Vladimir Voynovich, Vladimir Sorokin, among others... It turned out that the people of the former USSR, in their search for an idea that unites the nation, refer to the myth of the Great Patriotic War and the chosen people, led by a divinised leader. In modern times, the genre of anti-utopia is evolving, reacting vividly to the events unfolding in reality and the development of dangerous trends in the future. Also important seems to be the emergence on the literary map of so-called post-memory literature, which perpetuates in both individual and collective memory problems and themes that propaganda and censorship have ordered to be forgotten. The article also presents the appearance of a new anthropological type in literature, the so-called new Russian. Contemporary Russian literature could not fail to reflect on the armed conflicts in Chechnya and Ukraine.

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