From Theorist to Thinker: Encounter with Yuri Lotman under the Mentorship of Boris Egorov
... Professor Boris Fedorovich Egorov and, after returning to his native country, intensively exploring Lotman's last years (the so-called ‘Lotmanian explosion’). In particular, the author attempts to reconceptualize the intriguing concept of the ‘mechanism of Smuta’ that Lotman developed in his later years in terms of the "unpredictability of the past" and to highlight its profound implications for Lotman, who, the author argues, should be seen not only as a theorist but also as a (Russian) thinker....
