Dmitrii Bresler

Dmitrii Bresler is a specialist in Russophone literature and Soviet and post-Soviet cultural history. His research focuses on literary nonconformism, underground cultural networks, and the transformation of literary infrastructures from the avant-garde period to perestroika. He holds a PhD in Russian Literature from the Saint Petersburg State University and has held research and teaching positions at several European universities, including Humboldt University of Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, University of Macerata, and Masaryk University.

The project

Title: Perestroika Tamizdat: The émigré literary journal "Kontinent" and the Transnational Cultural Networks of the Soviet Underground (1974–1992)

Hosting institution: Centre d’Études Russes, Caucasiennes, Est-Européennes et Centrasiatiques (CERCEC)

Selective Bibliography

• Bresler D. M. Lyrics of The "Slouchy Fet": Rurik Ivnev and The Problem of Continuity in Soviet Literary in The 1950’s — 1960’s // Matica Srpska Journal of Slavic Studies. 2019. V. 96. №2. Novi Sad. p. 277–294
• Bresler D.  Introduction to "Tula": close reading of Andrei Nikolev's novel // Nikolev A. Beyond Tula: A Soviet Pastoral. Moscow: Nosorog, 2022. p. 157-171.
• Bresler D. Writing about the Present: from Collage Novels to Scattered Notes by Konstantin Vaginov // Vaginov K. K. «Seeds». Notebook. St. Petersburg: EUSPB Press. 2023. P. 357-388.
• Bresler D. M. The Only Shelve Library: How Vaginov Could Be Read from the 1960s—1980s // Russian Literature. Vol. 140. Amsterdam. 2023. P. 107-144 [2.1]. [in Russ.]
• Bresler D., Perepletova D. Free University in Leningrad (1988–1991): institutional and metapoetic forms of the « New Literature » // New literary observer. 2024. №185. Moscow. pp. 212-232