Charlottengrad: Russian Culture In Weimar Berlin

University of Wisconsin Press
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As many as half a million Russians lived in Germany in the 1920s, most of them in Berlin, clustered in and around the Charlottenburg neighborhood to such a degree that it became known as “Charlottengrad.” Traditionally, the Russian émigré community has been understood as one of exiles aligned with Imperial Russia and hostile to the Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet government that followed. However, Charlottengrad embodied a full range of personal and political positions vis-à-vis the Soviet project, from enthusiastic loyalty to questioning ambivalence and pessimistic alienation. By closely examining the intellectual output of Charlottengrad, Roman Utkin explores how community members balanced their sense of Russianness with their position in a modern Western city charged with artistic, philosophical, and sexual freedom. He highlights how Russian authors abroad engaged with Weimar-era cultural energies while sustaining a distinctly Russian perspective on modernist expression, and follows queer Russian artists and writers who, with their German counterparts, charted a continuous evolution in political and cultural attitudes toward both the Weimar and Soviet states. Utkin provides insight into the exile community in Berlin, which, following the collapse of the tsarist government, was one of the earliest to face and collectively process the peculiarly modern problem of statelessness. Charlottengrad analyzes the cultural praxis of “Russia Abroad” in a dynamic Berlin, investigating how these Russian émigrés and exiles navigated what it meant to be Russian—culturally, politically, and institutionally—when the Russia they knew no longer existed.


  • | Author: Roman Utkin
  • | Publisher: University Of Wisconsin Press
  • | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2023
  • | Number of Pages: 256 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 0299344401
  • | ISBN-13: 9780299344405
Author:
Roman Utkin
Publisher:
University Of Wisconsin Press
Publication Date:
Aug 01, 2023
Number of pages:
256 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
0299344401
ISBN-13:
9780299344405