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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... techniques , so popular among the propertied classes before the revolution , seem to have been swept away to- gether ... technique of individualization . But non - Western cultures may employ other practices to transform and work on the ...
... techniques , so popular among the propertied classes before the revolution , seem to have been swept away to- gether ... technique of individualization . But non - Western cultures may employ other practices to transform and work on the ...
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... technique as the examination ) . Similarly , " the task of the genealogist of the modern subject is to isolate the constituent components and to analyze the interplay of these compo- nents . " 47 If modern individuals are produced by ...
... technique as the examination ) . Similarly , " the task of the genealogist of the modern subject is to isolate the constituent components and to analyze the interplay of these compo- nents . " 47 If modern individuals are produced by ...
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... technique , a certain step back from the practices to be ana- lyzed , at least if those practices are contemporary . This step is already made for the archaeologist , if these practices belong to the distant past . Next , this method ...
... technique , a certain step back from the practices to be ana- lyzed , at least if those practices are contemporary . This step is already made for the archaeologist , if these practices belong to the distant past . Next , this method ...
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... technique that renders our most obvious ways of doing things with words problematic by comparing them with something outlandish , either the discursive practices of a foreign culture or those of an earlier epoch in our own culture ...
... technique that renders our most obvious ways of doing things with words problematic by comparing them with something outlandish , either the discursive practices of a foreign culture or those of an earlier epoch in our own culture ...
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... technique , a certain step back from the practices to be ana- lyzed , at least if those practices are contemporary . This step is already made for the archaeologist , if these practices belong to the distant past . Next , this method ...
... technique , a certain step back from the practices to be ana- lyzed , at least if those practices are contemporary . This step is already made for the archaeologist , if these practices belong to the distant past . Next , this method ...
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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