2. Mikhail Epstein “ The Origins and Meaning of Russian Postmodernism” (1995)
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4. “ Russians have only names for everything, but nothing in reality. Russia is a country of façades.[...] How many cities and roads exist only as projects.[…]” Marquis de Custine, 1839
5. “ Signs of a new reality, of which Soviet citizens were so proud in the thirties and fifties, from Stalin’s massive hydroelectric plant on the Dnieper River to Khriushchev’s decision to raise corn and Brezhnev’s numerous autobiographies, were actually pure ideological simulations of reality. This artificial reality was intended to demonstrate the superiority of ideas over simple facts.” Mikhail Epstein