The Unmaking Of Soviet Life
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The Unmaking Of Soviet Life
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Author : Caroline Humphrey
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-06
The Unmaking Of Soviet Life written by Caroline Humphrey and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-06 with Social Science categories.
In order to understand today's Russia and former Soviet republics, it is vital to consider their socialist past. Caroline Humphrey, one of anthropology's most highly regarded thinkers on a number of topics including consumption, identity, and ritual, is the ideal guide to the intricacies of post-Soviet culture. The Unmaking of Soviet Life brings together ten of Humphrey's best essays, which cover, geographically, Central Russia, Siberia, and Mongolia; and thematically, the politics of locality, property, and persons.Bridging the strongest of Humphrey's work from 1991 to 2001, the essays do a great deal to demystify the sensational topics of mafia, barter, bribery, and the new shamanism by locating them in the lived experiences of a wide range of subjects. The Unmaking of Soviet Life includes a foreword and introductory paragraphs by Bruce Grant and Nancy Ries that precede each essay.
Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More
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Author : Alexei Yurchak
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2006
Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More written by Alexei Yurchak and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
Drawing on diaries, correspondence, interviews and memoirs, and applying historical, anthropological and linguistic analyses, this text explores late Soviet period (1960s-80s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation.
Normal Life
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Author : Daniel J. Walkowitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Normal Life written by Daniel J. Walkowitz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Coal miners categories.
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty
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Author : Victoria Smolkin
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-29
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty written by Victoria Smolkin and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-29 with History categories.
When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews with those who were on the front lines of Communist ideological campaigns, Victoria Smolkin argues that to understand the Soviet experiment, we must make sense of Soviet atheism. Smolkin shows how atheism was reimagined as an alternative cosmology with its own set of positive beliefs, practices, and spiritual commitments. Through its engagements with religion, the Soviet leadership realized that removing religion from the "sacred spaces" of Soviet life was not enough. Then, in the final years of the Soviet experiment, Mikhail Gorbachev—in a stunning and unexpected reversal—abandoned atheism and reintroduced religion into Soviet public life. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty explores the meaning of atheism for religious life, for Communist ideology, and for Soviet politics.
Anthropologica
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Anthropologica written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Nation Language Islam
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Author : Helen M. Faller
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-10
Nation Language Islam written by Helen M. Faller and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-10 with History categories.
A detailed academic treatise of the history of nationality in Tatarstan. The book demonstrates how state collapse and national revival influenced the divergence of worldviews among ex-Soviet people in Tatarstan, where a political movement for sovereignty (1986-2000) had significant social effects, most saliently, by increasing the domains where people speak the Tatar language and circulating ideas associated with Tatar culture. Also addresses the question of how Russian Muslims experience quotidian life in the post-Soviet period. The only book-length ethnography in English on Tatars, Russia’s second most populous nation, and also the largest Muslim community in the Federation, offers a major contribution to our understanding of how and why nations form and how and why they matter – and the limits of their influence, in the Tatar case.
Common Places
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Author : Svetlana Boym
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1994
Common Places written by Svetlana Boym and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Boym provides a view of Russia that is historically informed, replete with unexpected detail, and stamped with authority. Alternating analysis with personal accounts of Russian life, she conveys the foreignness of Russia and examines its peculiar conceptions of private life and common good, of Culture and Trash, of sincerity and banality.
My Life In Stalin S Russia
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Author : Roman Schmalz
language : en
Publisher: Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc
Release Date : 2007-04-01
My Life In Stalin S Russia written by Roman Schmalz and has been published by Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
My Life in Stalin's Russia tells the story of one man and his ancestors who lived through the horrifying experience of life in the Soviet Union during a very turbulent era. Though perhaps a secret territory to rest of the world, the Soviet Union was home to author Roman Schmalz, and in this book, he provides a brief collection of memoirs and reflections in hopes of filling in pieces of a huge puzzle in history. He describes everyday life under Soviet rule, and he offers his thoughts on how the world got to that point and where it might be headed.
How The Soviet Man Was Unmade
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Author : Lilya Kaganovsky
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2010-06-15
How The Soviet Man Was Unmade written by Lilya Kaganovsky and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Stalinist Russia, the idealized Soviet man projected an image of strength, virility, and unyielding drive in his desire to build a powerful socialist state. In monuments, posters, and other tools of cultural production, he became the demigod of Communist ideology. But beneath the surface of this fantasy, between the lines of texts and in film, lurked another figure: the wounded body of the heroic invalid, the second version of Stalin's New Man. In How the Soviet Man Was Unmade, Lilya Kaganovsky exposes the paradox behind the myth of the indestructible Stalinist-era male. In her analysis of social-realist literature and cinema, she examines the recurring theme of the mutilated male body, which appears with startling frequency. Kaganovsky views this representation as a thinly veiled statement about the emasculated male condition during the Stalinist era. Because the communist state was "full of heroes," a man could only truly distinguish himself and attain hero status through bodily sacrifice-yet in his wounding, he was forever reminded that he would be limited in what he could achieve, and was expected to remain in a state of continued subservience to Stalin and the party.Kaganovsky provides an insightful reevaluation of classic works of the period, including the novels of Nikolai Ostrovskii (How Steel Was Tempered) and Boris Polevoi (A Story About a Real Man), and films such as Ivan Pyr'ev's The Party Card, Eduard Pentslin's The Fighter Pilots, and Mikhail Chiaureli's The Fall of Berlin, among others. The symbolism of wounding and dismemberment in these works acts as a fissure in the facade of Stalinist cultural production through which we can view the consequences of historic and political trauma.
To See Paris And Die
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Author : Eleonory Gilburd
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-05
To See Paris And Die written by Eleonory Gilburd and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-05 with History categories.
After Stalin died a torrent of Western novels, films, and paintings invaded Soviet streets and homes. Soviet citizens invested these imports with political and personal significance, transforming them into intimate possessions. Eleonory Gilburd reveals how Western culture defined the last three decades of the Soviet Union, its death, and afterlife.