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In the article the conceptual model of Russian literature of the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries is presented. This is the paradigmatic description of a) the content and aesthetic parameters of the literature which reflect the use of new literary material and new ways of its poetic interpretation; b) the inclusion of the literature into the changing episteme which conditions a world outlook system and the picture of the world which is reflected in literary works; c) the pragmatic purpose of the literature which is connected with the introduction of new values, which have to keep society safe and to provide social progress, into the social consciousness. From the viewpoints of content and aesthetic features Russian literature is characterized as finalizing, analytical, reorienting, warning, approving the principles of aesthetic pluralism in the conditions of freedom of speech and in the situation of postmodern culture. On the second level it reflects the processes of reorientation and changing of the episteme itself which include different world outlook systems, from “back-to-the-soil” movement to postmodernism. It appears as polysemantic and multi-variant, helping to understand what can be a base of being a human and to avoid collapsing at this time marked by the sign of catastrophism. In the respect of pragmatics Russian literature of the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries is multifunctional. At first, it tries to have an influence upon the life in connection with the transition from totalitarian standards of existence to the more liberating and humane ones, which reflects the general trend of the motion of the mankind from the epoch of modernism to the epoch of postmodernism and spurs to search for decisions that would be suitable to the new reality. Secondly, it is involved in the processes of rebirth of national originality and the protection of the Russian ethnic interests. Thirdly, it resists the pressure of the mass culture. Fourthly, it participates in the creation of a new Internet literary environment and the transition to the new network forms of the functioning of literature. On the fifth place it forms a new type of reader, who enters into interactive conversation with literature. All this allows us to define modern Russian literature as a new social, cultural and aesthetic phenomenon, which proves the powerful surge of the creative energy in the unchained country.
