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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
Alexei Yurchak
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Description for Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
Paperback. Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. Focusing on the transformation of the 1950's at the level of discourse, ideology, language, and ritual, this book traces the emergence of multiple unanticipated meanings, communities, relations, and pursuits that this transformation enabled. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 halftones. 3 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
In-Formation
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691121178
SKU
V9780691121178
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About Alexei Yurchak
Alexei Yurchak is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Reviews for Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
Winner of the 2015 Prosvetitel (Enlightener) Book Prize Winner of the 2007 AAASS Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies "If there is a prize for best title of the year, this book surely deserves it. Alexei Yurchak ... has written an interesting and provocative book about the way young Soviet Russians talked in ... Read more