2000 Reports

No(w)stalgia: Retro on the (Post-)Soviet Television Screen

Ivanova, Natalya

During that time when the post-Brezhnev period “stagnation”) was still fading away, Georgian and Abkhazian prose writers, poets and critics, along with their Russian, Ukrainian, Estonian, Kazakh (the list could be continued) colleagues, all in all 30 people, no more, would gather together every year on the blessed Kolkhid shore at the invitation of the Main Editorial board on Translation and Cooperation among Literatures of the Georgian Council of Ministers and the editorial board of the journal Literary Georgia {Literatumaia Gruziia). “In this remote province by the sea” you could talk much more freely than in the imperial center: the tone and spirit were more than unofficial.