Studies on Soviet culture have treated the aesthetics of the sublime predominantly in terms of the Soviet sublime as manifested in Stalinist culture. This article will argue that the sublime cannot, in its impact on Soviet aesthetics, be delimited to imperial representations. The aesthetics of the sublime in Romanticism and its continuation into modernism in European Literatures arose from a problematization of the very notion of representation in art, in the mind and in politics. The legacy of this aesthetics in Soviet literature can be linked to the paradoxical quest for a means of representing or writing the breakdown in the understanding of the world that occurred after the Revolution. As will be shown in examples from 1920s Soviet literature, the people appear as an immense natural force that demands a different means of presentation.

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英雄主义还是悲剧：苏联美学革命浪漫主义的崇高

对苏联文化的研究主要根据斯大林主义文化中所表现的苏联崇高来对待崇高美学。本文将论证，崇高对苏联美学的影响不能仅限于帝国表现。浪漫主义崇高美学及其在欧洲文学现代主义中的延续，源于艺术、思想和政治中的再现概念的问题化。这种美学在苏联文学中的遗产可以与对表达或书写革命后对世界理解的崩溃的一种自相矛盾的追求联系起来。正如 1920 年代苏联文学中的例子所示，人民表现为一股巨大的自然力量，需要不同的表现方式。