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https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.6-16.077
Kuchinko Tatiana Yu.,
Postgraduate student of the Department of the History of Modern Russian Literature and Contemporary Literature Process,
Faculty of Philology.
Lomonosov Moscow State University
E-mail: tanya16291@gmail.com
The article reveals the similarity between Solzhenitsyn’s understanding of the community of the Gulag prisoners as a specific nation and at the same time supranational commonality and the national imagined communities in the Benedict Anderson’s interpretation. It is shown that the representation of the Gulag prisoners as a specific nation is possible only due to mode of thinking beyond the traditional national categories what (contrary to a popular belief) was not alien to Solzhenitsyn, because he valued both national specificity and supranational commonalities.
Keywords: Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, nation, cosmopolitanism, Benedict Anderson, imagined communities.
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