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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... speech 19. Self - immolation of the Party : a Party reelection conference of the Krasnogvardeisky district committee , May 1937 20. A group of delegates to the Leningrad Party reelection conference , May 1937 11. Results of the ...
... speech 19. Self - immolation of the Party : a Party reelection conference of the Krasnogvardeisky district committee , May 1937 20. A group of delegates to the Leningrad Party reelection conference , May 1937 11. Results of the ...
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... and Sociology at the European University at St. Petersburg and the class of 1996-97 for making me believe that speech acts really matter . Individualism and the Study of Practices OBJECTIVE This book started xii Acknowledgments.
... and Sociology at the European University at St. Petersburg and the class of 1996-97 for making me believe that speech acts really matter . Individualism and the Study of Practices OBJECTIVE This book started xii Acknowledgments.
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... speech acts . The idea of the background is very widespread in the twentieth - cen- tury philosophy and the sociology of knowledge , in various efforts to ar- ticulate the unarticulated preconditions for speech and intentional commu ...
... speech acts . The idea of the background is very widespread in the twentieth - cen- tury philosophy and the sociology of knowledge , in various efforts to ar- ticulate the unarticulated preconditions for speech and intentional commu ...
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... speech acts . The idea of the background is very widespread in the twentieth - cen- tury philosophy and the sociology of knowledge , in various efforts to ar- ticulate the unarticulated preconditions for speech and intentional commu ...
... speech acts . The idea of the background is very widespread in the twentieth - cen- tury philosophy and the sociology of knowledge , in various efforts to ar- ticulate the unarticulated preconditions for speech and intentional commu ...
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... speech acts involves a taken for granted shared background of practices , since no one can ever fully say what he means so as to exclude in advance every pos- sible misunderstanding " ( HDPR , 49 ; and see xxi , 47 , 77 , 94 ) . he ...
... speech acts involves a taken for granted shared background of practices , since no one can ever fully say what he means so as to exclude in advance every pos- sible misunderstanding " ( HDPR , 49 ; and see xxi , 47 , 77 , 94 ) . he ...
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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