Everything Was Forever, until It Was No More The Last Soviet Generation

Name: Everything Was Forever, until It Was No More The Last Soviet Generation
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ISBN: 9780691121178

ISBN-10: 0691121176

ISBN-13: 9780691121178

Edition: 2005

Authors: Alexei Yurchak

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Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive. This book explores the paradoxes of Soviet life during the period of "late socialism" (1960s-1980s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation. Focusing on the major transformation of the 1950s at…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/23/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342



Acknowledgments



Late Socialism An Eternal State



Hegemony of Form Stalin's Uncanny Paradigm Shift



Ideology Inside Out Ethics and Poetics



Living "Vnye" Deterritorialized Milieus



Imaginary West The Elsewhere of Late Socialism



True Colors of Communism King Crimson, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd



Dead Irony Necroaesthetics, "Stiob," and the Anekdot


Conclusion


Bibliography


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