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“NIGHTMARE OF CIVILIZATION”: EROSION OF THE NONPOLITICAL IN AKSYONOV’S GENERATIONS
Through its deliberate promotion of a “prophylactic” orthodoxy, its targeting and purging of non-Soviet identity, and its prerogative of bio-power, the Soviet party-state apparat, under the authority of Stalin, sought to erase the very boundaries between private and public life, between the personal and the political Continue reading
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SOVIET COMMUNION: THE QUEUE AS CONSUMER RITUAL
As fulfillment of Lenin’s covenant eroded, the procession – the ordered line, the queue – had become a regular ritual of profound, if not transcendent, import. Continue reading
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Tagged 20th century, consumerism, eastern bloc, history, human rights, moscow, politics, religion, ritual, russia, secularism, soviet union, spirituality
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