1. Brown suggests that there are several fairly distinct gradations of the nationalist (culturalist) movement ranging from extreme chauvinism to a more benign liberal nationalism, with the “Russites” and “ruralists” occupying the center. But Brown himself acknowledges the difficulties of trying to classify various currents in the movement too rigidly. See Deming, Brown, “Nationalism and Ruralism in Recent Soviet Russian Literature,” Review of National Literatures, 3, no. 1 (Spring 1972) : 183–209.Google Scholar

2. “Vysokii dolg masterov kul'tury” (“The Lofty Duty of Experts of Culture“), Pravda, Nov. 30, 1972.

3. A. Iakovlev, “Protiv antiistorizma,” Literaturnaia gazeta, Nov. 15, 1972.