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In the explosive, unpredictable world of contemporary russian literature at the beginning of the 21 st century, there appeared a phenomenon of noncommercial literature that became more visible and more attractive to readers then the traditional readings of the 90s commercial prose. Contemporary russian literature modern russian prose and poetry. Clancy, laurie, the novels of vladimir nabokov new york, 1984. Old russian literature can be seen as a literature with a single theme and a single subject. The emergence of old russian literature history of.
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