Description: Further DetailsTitle: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No MoreCondition: NewEAN: 9780691121178ISBN: 9780691121178Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/23/2005Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmItem Weight: 482gAuthor: Alexei YurchakLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Last Soviet GenerationISBN-10: 0691121176Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryBook Series: In-FormationRelease Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
Title: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
EAN: 9780691121178
ISBN: 9780691121178
Release Date: 10/23/2005
Release Year: 2005
Subtitle: The Last Soviet Generation
ISBN-10: 0691121176
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: Everything Was Forever, until It Was No more : the Last Soviet Generation
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Anthropology / General
Publication Year: 2005
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Author: Alexei Yurchak
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: In-Formation Ser.
Format: Perfect
