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The Wheat of Humanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Osip Mandelstam  and
Richard Lee Pierre
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At the end of 1922, after years of revolution and civil war, the Soviet Union was formally incorporated, bringing areas of the former Russian Empire into an ostensibly unified conglomerate. Though conflicts continued to smolder, Spenglerian discourse from the area touted a flourishing Slavic East in opposition to a declining European West. For the thousands of Russians and other émigrés from the former Russian Empire living abroad in Europe, this opposition presented a conundrum: should their sympathies lie with their cultural home or with the West, where they experienced daily life?

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PMLA , Volume 132 , Issue 3 , May 2017 , pp. 690 - 695
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Copyright © 2017 The Modern Language Association of America

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