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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999. Oleg 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 demon |
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... problem may lie with the concepts rather than with the country . Per- haps " collectivism " and " individualism " are not very useful concepts for examining social and political changes in the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- publics or in ...
... problem may lie with the concepts rather than with the country . Per- haps " collectivism " and " individualism " are not very useful concepts for examining social and political changes in the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- publics or in ...
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... problems . Soviet individualization hardly happened in a way described by Foucault for the case of Western Europe . First , Christian confession — a primary means of the individual- ization in the West , according to Foucault — did not ...
... problems . Soviet individualization hardly happened in a way described by Foucault for the case of Western Europe . First , Christian confession — a primary means of the individual- ization in the West , according to Foucault — did not ...
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... problem in the analyst's culture . Having identified this problem , the analyst proceeds to study the conditions that made the appearance of this problem possible , by paying attention to those back- ground practices that provided ...
... problem in the analyst's culture . Having identified this problem , the analyst proceeds to study the conditions that made the appearance of this problem possible , by paying attention to those back- ground practices that provided ...
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... problem in the analyst's culture . Having identified this problem , the analyst proceeds to study the conditions that made the appearance of this problem possible , by paying attention to those back- ground practices that provided ...
... problem in the analyst's culture . Having identified this problem , the analyst proceeds to study the conditions that made the appearance of this problem possible , by paying attention to those back- ground practices that provided ...
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... problems in a given science and thus unobtrusively prescribes acceptable ways of doing things 38. Foucault , Archaeology of Knowledge , 152 . 39. The word " could " in this sentence may be taken as too strong an assertion but I choose ...
... problems in a given science and thus unobtrusively prescribes acceptable ways of doing things 38. Foucault , Archaeology of Knowledge , 152 . 39. The word " could " in this sentence may be taken as too strong an assertion but I choose ...
Contents
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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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