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

by Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

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Tue, Feb 10, 2026

4:30 PM – 6 PM EST (GMT-5)

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East Pyne Hall, Room 245

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Communism and Beyond. Flyer for Bradley Gorski vertical bar 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.

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East Pyne Hall, Room 245

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Bradley Gorski

Assistant Professor

Georgetown University

Bradley Gorski is assistant professor of Slavic Languages at Georgetown University with a special focus on late-and post-Soviet literature and culture. He teaches a range of courses on 20th and 21st century Russia, including Russian language, literatures of the Soviet and post-Soviet peripheries, and writing seminars on topics such as violence, death, and cultural memory.



He holds a B.A. from Georgetown University. After completing post-graduate work at St. Petersburg State University (2008), he received his M.A. (2012) and Ph.D. (2018) from Columbia University.



 

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (OWNER), Slavic Languages & Literatures

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