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Carregando... Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More (2006)de Alexei Yurchak
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. One of rarest cases I gave up. I am an experienced non-fiction reader and was attracted to the theme. Moreover, i'm a native speaker of Russian, thus wasn't irritated by endless italicized Russian words in Latin letters. One thing however made me throw in the towel - I realized this is a PhD thesis and should be marketed like that. A superb, extremely well researched, but still a very scholarly work. I gave it numerous tries, thinking that maybe that chapter on Komsomol inner workings cannot be written any more interesting and readable than that, and chapters on more quotidian matters would happen to be what I want it to be - a good and digestible book on a highly interesting topic. Alas, no such luck. And I'm not picky - I encountered a number of great and deep books on topics even less enticing than this. I'm very sad, but if I were after a scholarly take on it, I would have turned to academic journals or the original thesis, which the author tried to shoehorn into somewhat different genre. I should blame myself - first opening chapter, reviewing previous scholarly work, was very much within the PhD tradition, with level of detalization far exceeding any reasonable boundaries. Name of the publishing house should have warned me too. Anyway, be aware. Still I'm certain it's a great work, hence no star rating. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive. This book explores the paradoxes of Soviet life during the period of "late socialism" (1960s-1980s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation. Focusing on the major transformation of the 1950s at the level of discourse, ideology, language, and ritual, Alexei Yurchak traces the emergence of multiple unanticipated meanings, communities, relations, ideals, and pursuits that this transformation subsequently enabled. His historical, anthropological, and linguistic analysis draws on rich ethnographic material from Late Socialism and the post-Soviet period. The model of Soviet socialism that emerges provides an alternative to binary accounts that describe that system as a dichotomy of official culture and unofficial culture, the state and the people, public self and private self, truth and lie--and ignore the crucial fact that, for many Soviet citizens, the fundamental values, ideals, and realities of socialism were genuinely important, although they routinely transgressed and reinterpreted the norms and rules of the socialist state. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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