Russia is Georgia after the empire. Digest of articles

The collection includes scientific, literary, journalistic materials and interviews of culturologists and literary critics from different countries (Germany, Georgia, Poland, Russia, the USA, etc), as well as observers of post-Soviet transformations of Russian-Georgian relations. The main task of research is to single out the relevant topics and angles of modeling of the new reality of this literary and cultural field within the framework of interdisciplinary and international dialogue. It was the literature that provided useful material that allowed you to look behind the scenes of geopolitical narratives, since politically significant mental categories are inextricably linked both with the literary images of Russia and Georgia and the Russian-Georgian myth. If in the Soviet era this myth contributed to an almost ritual study of the history of the relations of the two peoples, then starting from the second half of the 1980s it was he who became a kind of foundation for the political, military, and, as it seemed then, the cultural demarcation of the once "fraternal republics"