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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... Reveal and Dissimulate : A Genealogy of Private Life in Soviet Russia , " in Public and Private in Thought and Practice : Perspec- tives on a Grand Dichotomy , ed . Jeff Weintraub and Krishan Kumar ( Chicago , 1997 ) © by The University ...
... Reveal and Dissimulate : A Genealogy of Private Life in Soviet Russia , " in Public and Private in Thought and Practice : Perspec- tives on a Grand Dichotomy , ed . Jeff Weintraub and Krishan Kumar ( Chicago , 1997 ) © by The University ...
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... revealed a substantial number of people who espoused individualist ideals , a surprising finding for the country that was presumed to have been overtly collectivist for centuries.1 Could the " indi- vidualism " in question be exactly ...
... revealed a substantial number of people who espoused individualist ideals , a surprising finding for the country that was presumed to have been overtly collectivist for centuries.1 Could the " indi- vidualism " in question be exactly ...
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... revealed to be inadequate . In order to illustrate his concept , Searle supplies a series of extravagant stories involving the claim " a cat is on the mat , " shifting the background from one that most Americans find familiar to one ...
... revealed to be inadequate . In order to illustrate his concept , Searle supplies a series of extravagant stories involving the claim " a cat is on the mat , " shifting the background from one that most Americans find familiar to one ...
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... revealed when members of different cultures meet — as in the washbasin example 26 — but also in other , more subtle ... reveal their coherence , and to call attention to the shared back- ground that endows words in a given culture with ...
... revealed when members of different cultures meet — as in the washbasin example 26 — but also in other , more subtle ... reveal their coherence , and to call attention to the shared back- ground that endows words in a given culture with ...
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... reveals that it is far from obvious , for example , that locking up criminals is the " natural " or the universal way to treat them , or that the only means for the study of disease is a singling out and analyzing the individual body ...
... reveals that it is far from obvious , for example , that locking up criminals is the " natural " or the universal way to treat them , or that the only means for the study of disease is a singling out and analyzing the individual body ...
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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