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Culture and revolution: Bakhtin, Mayakovsky and Lenin (disalienation as [social] creativity)

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  • Aleksandr Buzgalin
  • Lyudmila Bulavka-Buzgalina

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The article shows the dialectic of the relationship of revolution and culture as two sides of creativity - social and art. In a dialogue with the philosophy of Mikhail Bakhtin, the authors reveal culture as the removal of alienation (disalienation) in the process of subject-subjective dialogue, in which a qualitatively new reality is created – Truth, Beauty, Good, a new person is born - a man-creator, and as such, culture is revolutionary. The second side of this connection - the revolution as a culture - is revealed by the authors on the example of the social creativity of revolutionary Russia, the poet of which was Vladimir Mayakovsky. The article gives a panorama of the historical practices of art and social creativity of the 1920s. The authors show that the counterpoint to these practices was the relationship of conformism, bureaucracy and other forms of social alienation which led the Soviet project to the dead end. The authors conclude that disalienation in the social and cultural spheres is possible only to the extent that the sociopolitical revolutionary changes are carried out in unity with the liberation of the cultural potential of the masses, and art creativity is interfaced (united) with social creativity.

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  • Aleksandr Buzgalin & Lyudmila Bulavka-Buzgalina, 2020. "Culture and revolution: Bakhtin, Mayakovsky and Lenin (disalienation as [social] creativity)," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(8), pages 1322-1337, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:41:y:2020:i:8:p:1322-1337
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2019.1700792
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