Mark Lipovetsky

Mark Naumovich Lipovetsky (Russian: Mарк Наумович Липовецкий; born June 2, 1964) is a Russian literary, film, and cultural critic who advocates the position that postmodernism is replacing socialist realism as the dominant art movement in Russia.

His major interests include 20th century Russian literature, Russian postmodernism,[1] fairy-tales, Mikhail Bakhtin's carnival, and totalitarian and post-communist cultures.

[2] He was a professor within the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and a joint faculty member of the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

[3] In 2019, he joined the Slavic Department at Columbia University with a goal of focusing on contemporary Russian culture within the Harriman Institute.

[5] Lipovestky is the author or co-author of five books and more than seventy articles.