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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... terms , the question is hard to answer . Even the growth of the middle class will not dispel the ambiguity of current conditions . Given the fact that many new successful entrepreneurs were part of the Com- munist nomenklatura , it is ...
... terms , the question is hard to answer . Even the growth of the middle class will not dispel the ambiguity of current conditions . Given the fact that many new successful entrepreneurs were part of the Com- munist nomenklatura , it is ...
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... term " individualism , " but they constitute only one of the four main components of meaning usually ascribed to this term . In the most compre- hensive study to date , Steven Lukes , working in Arthur Lovejoy's tradition of the history ...
... term " individualism , " but they constitute only one of the four main components of meaning usually ascribed to this term . In the most compre- hensive study to date , Steven Lukes , working in Arthur Lovejoy's tradition of the history ...
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... term " background " frequently , but not necessarily in Dreyfus's sense of the term . He employs it mostly in the idiomatic phrase " against the background , " often used interchangeably with synonymous idioms . Thus , 25. Hubert L ...
... term " background " frequently , but not necessarily in Dreyfus's sense of the term . He employs it mostly in the idiomatic phrase " against the background , " often used interchangeably with synonymous idioms . Thus , 25. Hubert L ...
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... term " background " over other metaphors for the relationship between practices and the content of discourse . In his earlier writings , which were still very heavily influenced by Heidegger's use of spatial metaphors , he employs such ...
... term " background " over other metaphors for the relationship between practices and the content of discourse . In his earlier writings , which were still very heavily influenced by Heidegger's use of spatial metaphors , he employs such ...
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... term " serious " when they con- struct their definition of the " serious speech act " makes their definition difficult to handle . If the president makes a joke during a presentation to Congress , or a weather scientist makes a mistake ...
... term " serious " when they con- struct their definition of the " serious speech act " makes their definition difficult to handle . If the president makes a joke during a presentation to Congress , or a weather scientist makes a mistake ...
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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