Gulnaz Sharafutdinova

The Afterlife of the 'Soviet Man' (eBook, PDF)

Rethinking Homo Sovieticus

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Produktbeschreibung

Almost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, today more often than ever, global media and intellectuals rely on the concept of homo sovieticus to explain Russia's authoritarian ills. Homo sovieticus - or the Soviet man - is understood to be a double-thinking, suspicious and fearful conformist with no morality, an innate obedience to authority and no public demands; they have been forged in the fires of the totalitarian conditions in which they find themselves.

But where did this concept come from? What analytical and ideological pillars does it stand on? What is at stake in using this term today? The Afterlife of the 'Soviet Man' addresses all these questions and even explains why - at least in its contemporary usage - this concept should be abandoned altogether.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350167735
• Artikelnr.: 66679378

Autorenporträt

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova is Professor of Russian Politics at King's Russia Institute (King's College London, UK. She is the author of award-winning The Red Mirror: Putin's Leadership and Russia's Insecure Identity (2020) and an earlier monograph, Political Consequences of Crony Capitalism Inside Russia (2011). She is also the co-editor, along with Neringa Klumbyte, of Soviet Society In The Era of Late Socialism, 1964-1985 (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 1. On Riding Bicycles and Human Judgement 2. Homo Sovieticus as
Eastern European Dissent 3. Homo Sovieticus as Soviet Dissent 4. Homo
Sovieticus as a Perestroika Child 5. Homo Sovieticus as Post-Soviet Empathy
6. Homo Post-Sovieticus as a Fight for the Continent Bibliography Index