Bradley Gorski | Spring 2026 Book Talk Series: 'Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market after Socialism'

Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market after Socialism explores Russian literature's exuberant hopes for and deep disappointments in capitalism. Only a free market, it was hoped, could cure endemic book deficits and liberate literature from ideological constraints. But as the market came to dominate literature, it imposed an ideology of its own, one that directed literary development for decades. Through archival research, original interviews and provocative readings, Gorski immerses the reader in both the economic and aesthetic worlds of post-Soviet Russian literature to reveal a cultural logic dominated by capitalism. By revealing the complexities of Russia's story, Cultural Capitalism mounts a critique that cuts across national borders and provides a new way of seeing culture in the post-1989 era worldwide. --- Event Details: https://my.princeton.edu/rsvp?id=1970560