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Post Soviet Nostalgia
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Author : Otto Boele
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-24
Post Soviet Nostalgia written by Otto Boele and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-24 with History categories.
Bringing together scholars from Russia, the United States and Europe, this collection of essays is the first to explore the slippery phenomenon of post-Soviet nostalgia by studying it as a discursive practice serving a wide variety of ideological agendas. The authors demonstrate how feelings of loss and displacement in post-Soviet Russia are turned into effective tools of state building and national mobilization, as well as into weapons for local resistance and the assertion of individual autonomy. Drawing on novels, memoirs, documentaries, photographs and Soviet commodities, Post-Soviet Nostalgia is an invaluable resource for historians, literary scholars and anthropologists interested in how Russia comes to terms with its Soviet past.
Post Communist Nostalgia
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Author : Maria Todorova
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2012
Post Communist Nostalgia written by Maria Todorova and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people's lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.
Motherland
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Author : Charles J. Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-09-13
Motherland written by Charles J. Sullivan and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Political Science categories.
This book explores the extent to which and the reasons why Russia’s citizens harbor feelings of nostalgia for the Soviet Union today. Based on the results of a nationwide survey and rigorous field research carried out within several of Russia’s regions, Dr. Sullivan uncovers material and cultural rationales for this sentiment of nostalgia – which poses both an opportunity and a challenge to the Russian government. With Russian nationalism and revanchism a resurgent force in contemporary global affairs, this detailed study will interest scholars of international relations and of populist authoritarianism around the world.
Stalin S Millennials
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Author : Tinatin Japaridze
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-02-21
Stalin S Millennials written by Tinatin Japaridze and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-21 with History categories.
This book examines Joseph Stalin’s increasing popularity in the post-Soviet space, and analyzes how his image, and the nostalgia it evokes, is manipulated and exploited for political gain. The author argues that, in addition to the evil dictator and the Georgian comrade, there is a third portrayal of Stalin—the one projected by the generation that saw the tail end of the USSR, the post-Soviet millennials. This book is not a biography of one of the most controversial historical figures of the past century. Rather, through a combination of sociopolitical commentary and autobiographical elements that are uncommon in monographs of this kind, the attempt is to explore how Joseph Stalin’s complex legacies and the conflicting cult of his irreconcilable tripartite of personalities still loom over the region as a whole, including Russia and, perhaps to an even deeper extent, Koba’s native land—now the independent Republic of Georgia, caught between its unreconciled Soviet past and the potential future within the European Union.
Anthropology And Nostalgia
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Author : Olivia Angé
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Anthropology And Nostalgia written by Olivia Angé and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Social Science categories.
Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce. Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of the formation of identity in politics and history. Contributors to this volume consider the fabric of nostalgia in the fields of heritage and tourism, exile and diasporas, postcolonialism and postsocialism, business and economic exchange, social, ecological and religious movements, and nation building. They contribute to a better understanding of how individuals and groups commemorate their pasts, and how nostalgia plays a role in the process of remembering.
Post Soviet Chaos
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Author : Joma Nazpary
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 2002
Post Soviet Chaos written by Joma Nazpary and has been published by Pluto Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Business & Economics categories.
Leading Marxist thinkers re-evaluate Trotsky's key theories -- an ideal introduction for students.
The Soviet Past In The Post Socialist Present
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Author : Melanie Ilic
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-03
The Soviet Past In The Post Socialist Present written by Melanie Ilic and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-03 with History categories.
This collection examines practical and ethical issues inherent in the application of oral history and memory studies to research about the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Case studies highlight the importance of ethical good practice, including the reflexive interrogation of the interviewer and researcher, and aspects of gender and national identity. Researchers use oral history to analyze present-day recollections of the Soviet past, thereby extending our understanding beyond archival records, official rhetoric and popular mythology. Oral history explores individual life stories, but this has sometimes resulted in rather incomplete, incoherent, inconsistent or illogical narratives. Oral history, therefore, presents the researcher with a number of methodological and ethical dilemmas, including the interpretation of "silence" in biographical accounts. This collection links the discussion of oral history ethics with that of memory studies. Memories are shaped by factors that may be, simultaneously, both consecutive and disrupted. In written accounts and responses to interview questions, respondents sometimes display nostalgia for the Soviet past, or, conversely, may seek to de-mythologize the realities of Soviet rule. Case studies explore what to do when interview subjects and memoirists consciously, sub-consciously or unconsciously "forget" aspects of their own past, or themselves seek to take control of the research process.
Velvet Retro
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Author : Veronika Pehe
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2020-02-01
Velvet Retro written by Veronika Pehe and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-01 with History categories.
Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked “nostalgia” to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in the Czech Republic and other contexts in which a “retro” fascination with the past has proven compatible with a steadfast critique of the state socialist era. This innovative study locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.
Environment And Post Soviet Transformation In Kazakhstan S Aral Sea Region
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Author : William Wheeler
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2021-10-25
Environment And Post Soviet Transformation In Kazakhstan S Aral Sea Region written by William Wheeler and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-25 with Social Science categories.
The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration. Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region is the first book to explore what these monumental changes have meant to those living on the sea’s shores. Following the fluctuating fortunes of the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet fisheries, the book shows how the vast environmental changes the region has undergone cannot be disentangled from the transformations of Soviet socialism and postsocialism. This ethnographic perspective prompts a critical rethinking of the category of environmental disaster through which the region is predominantly known. Tracing how the sea’s retreat and partial return have been apprehended by diverse local actors in the former port of Aral’sk and surrounding fishing villages, as well as by scientists, bureaucrats and international development workers, William Wheeler draws out the multiple meanings environmental change acquires within different contexts. This study of how people make their lives amidst overlapping ecological and political-economic upheavals is rich in ethnographic detail that is both rooted in Soviet legacies and alive to the new transnational connections that are reshaping the region. Offering a rigorous political ecology of Soviet socialism and after, the book is a major contribution to the nascent environmental anthropology of Central Asia. It will be of interest to environmental anthropologists, environmental historians, and scholars of all disciplines working on Central Asia and the former USSR.
Urban Life In Post Soviet Asia
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Author : Catharine Alexander
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2007-09-12
Urban Life In Post Soviet Asia written by Catharine Alexander and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-12 with Law categories.
Introduction / Catherine Alexander and Victor Buchli -- Astana : materiality and the city / Victor Buchli -- Almaty : rethinking the public sector / Catherine Alexander -- Tashkent : three capitals, three worlds / Marfua Tokhtakhodzhaeva -- City of migrants : contemporary Ulan-Ude in the context of Russian migration / Galina Manzanova -- The creation and revitalisation of ethnic, sacred sites in Ulan-Ude since 1990s / A. Hurelbaatar -- The homeless of Ulan-Ude / Irina Baldaeva -- New subjects and situated interdependence : after privatisation in Ulan-Ude / Caroline Humphrey -- Index.