The Collective and the Individual in Russia: A Study of PracticesOleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is about Russia. Examining the period from the Russian Revolution to the fall of Gorbachev, Kharkhordin demonstrates that Party rituals—which forced each Communist to reflect intensely and repeatedly on his or her "self," an entirely novel experience for many of them—had their antecedents in the Orthodox Christian practices of doing penance in the public gaze. Individualization in Soviet Russia occurred through the intensification of these public penitential practices rather than the private confessional practices that are characteristic of Western Christianity. He also finds that objectification of the individual in Russia relied on practices of mutual surveillance among peers, rather than on the hierarchical surveillance of subordinates by superiors that characterized the West. The implications of this book expand well beyond its brilliant analysis of the connection between Bolshevism and Eastern Orthodoxy to shed light on many questions about the nature of Russian society and culture. |
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... present investigation . So far , researchers of the two formerly dominant schools in interpreting Soviet history — the totalitarians and the revisionists — seemed to agree , even if they contradicted one another on most other points ...
... present investigation . So far , researchers of the two formerly dominant schools in interpreting Soviet history — the totalitarians and the revisionists — seemed to agree , even if they contradicted one another on most other points ...
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... present investigation addresses this curious status of individualism in Russian culture , but from a specific angle , examining the practices of in- dividualization rather than discourse about individualism . Let me first clar- ify the ...
... present investigation addresses this curious status of individualism in Russian culture , but from a specific angle , examining the practices of in- dividualization rather than discourse about individualism . Let me first clar- ify the ...
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... presents itself as subjective arises out of the common ( public ) transformable practices " ( John Rajchman , " Foucault : the Ethic and the Work , " in Michel Foucault Philosopher , trans . Timothy J. Armstrong [ New York : Routledge ...
... presents itself as subjective arises out of the common ( public ) transformable practices " ( John Rajchman , " Foucault : the Ethic and the Work , " in Michel Foucault Philosopher , trans . Timothy J. Armstrong [ New York : Routledge ...
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... presents itself as subjective arises out of the common ( public ) transformable practices " ( John Rajchman , " Foucault : the Ethic and the Work , " in Michel Foucault Philosopher , trans . Timothy J. Armstrong [ New York : Routledge ...
... presents itself as subjective arises out of the common ( public ) transformable practices " ( John Rajchman , " Foucault : the Ethic and the Work , " in Michel Foucault Philosopher , trans . Timothy J. Armstrong [ New York : Routledge ...
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... present - day discourse ( in which the author shares ) , we must take " an archeological step back , " a kind of estrangement technique that renders our most obvious ways of doing things with words problematic by comparing them with ...
... present - day discourse ( in which the author shares ) , we must take " an archeological step back , " a kind of estrangement technique that renders our most obvious ways of doing things with words problematic by comparing them with ...
Contents
XXXI | 138 |
XXXII | 141 |
XXXIII | 145 |
XXXIV | 147 |
XXXV | 152 |
XXXVI | 152 |
XXXVII | 152 |
XXXVIII | 167 |
XIV | 33 |
XV | 34 |
XVI | 46 |
XVII | 48 |
XVIII | 49 |
XIX | 58 |
XX | 65 |
XXI | 71 |
XXII | 76 |
XXIII | 81 |
XXIV | 88 |
XXV | 90 |
XXVI | 97 |
XXVII | 102 |
XXVIII | 112 |
XXIX | 123 |
XXX | 132 |
XLI | 176 |
XLII | 183 |
XLIII | 192 |
XLIV | 198 |
XLV | 207 |
XLVII | 225 |
XLVIII | 230 |
XLIX | 230 |
L | 232 |
LI | 239 |
LII | 247 |
LIII | 253 |
LIV | 260 |
LV | 267 |
LVI | 291 |
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