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    Published : 2024-11-20
    Vol. 72 No. 7 (2024)

    “…I Wanted to Be, Like Everyone Else, a Normal Soviet Idiot.” Ilya Bokshtein, the Disobedient Poet

    Agnieszka Lenart

    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7467-2788

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh247207.16

    Abstract

    The article presents a profile of the Russian-Israeli poet-dissident Ilya Bokshtein – a rebellious man, anti-communist, opponent of Soviet totalitarianism, and supporter of Orthodox spirituality and Western European democracy. The article draws attention to the most critical events in the poet’s life – his Soviet youth, meetings with Yuri Mamleyev, anti-regime speeches at the Moscow Mayak, stay in the gulag, repatriation to Israel – events that shaped him as an independent person and artist. Bokshtein exemplifies a poet of cultural borderland and hybrid identity. He represents a possible model of human behaviour (Russian, Russian Jew, migrant) in a borderline situation. The background of our research is the current political and social situation in Europe and beyond – the Russian aggression against Ukraine, migration, and repatriation to Israel (“Putin” aliyah and “war” aliyah).

    Keywords:

    Ilya Bokshtein, dissident, borderline situation, hybrid identity, self-awareness, behavioural model, repatriation from the USSR/Russia



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    Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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