Organizing Chaos or How the Russian Postmodernism Was Tempered

Abstract

The paper discusses the principles in the development of Russian culture, in which characteristic comparable to the phenomena in West-European and American literature of the last thirty years are revealed. The focus is on the genesis of the Russian postmodernism, which is treated as an expected developmental stage after the decline of modernistic aesthetics or, rather after the disintegration of the Soviet model of the world. The logic of the cultural process shown in a postmodern view is revealed as a peculiar dialogue with caos.