Mikhail Bakhtin
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Last Modified: 11/23/05
Summary: Bakhtin was not exactly a Marxist, but a theorist writing in Soviet Union starting in the 1920s, and thus he was very much aware of Marxist theories and doctrines, and how they were being implemented. He was also associated with the school known as Russian Formalism, a kind of precursor to our own American movement (in the 1940s and 50s) called New Criticism. 
Jetpak: Mikhail Bakhtin
http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/e20e505e-3b33-1029-86c1-00304880af2fSummary: Russian linguist and literary critic, whose writings, including Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929) and The Dialogic Imagination (1975), were very influential in 20th-century structuralism, poststructuralism, social theory, and the theory of the novel.
