Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895 to 1975) was a Russian philosopher and literary critic who worked on the philosophy of language, ethics and literary theory. His writings influenced scholars across Marxism, semiotics, structuralism and religious criticism, and across disciplines including literary criticism, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and psychology. Although he took part in Soviet debates on aesthetics and literature in the 1920s, his distinctive position did not become widely known until Russian scholars rediscovered his work in the 1960s.
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Defining MomentArrested by the Soviet secret police (OGPU) with others associated with Voskresenie 1 Notable PublicationProblems of Dostoevsky's Art (1929) 1 Office HeldChair of the General Literature Department, Mordovian Pedagogical Institute 1 Death PlaceMoscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union 1 In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Russia, originated there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Mikhail Bakhtin
Lead paragraph, birth year
16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1895
Infobox, birth_date
16 November 1895
Lead paragraph, death year
7 March 1975
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1975-03-07
Infobox, birth_place
Oryol, Russian Empire
Infobox, death_place
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Career, 1929 sentence
"Problems of Dostoevsky's Art", Bakhtin's first major work, was published
Career, Saransk return sentence
took on the position of chair of the General Literature Department at the Mordovian Pedagogical Institute
Career, arrest sentence
Bakhtin and a number of others associated with Voskresenie were apprehended by the Soviet secret police, the OGPU
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