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Mark D. Steinberg (Ed.) - Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe - 9780875806532 - V9780875806532
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Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe

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Description for Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe Hardback. Papers from a conference held at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in summer 2008. Num Pages: 306 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.

Bringing together important new work by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe approaches emotions as a phenomenon complexly intertwined with society, culture, politics, and history. The stories in this book involve sensitive aristocrats, committed revolutionaries, aggressive nationalists, political leaders, female victims of sexual violence, perpetrators and victims of Stalinist terror, citizens in the former Yugoslavia in the wake of war, workers in post-socialist Romania, Balkan Romani "Gypsy" musicians, and veterans of the Afghan and Chechen wars. These essays explore emotional perception and expression not only as private, inward feeling but also ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Number of Pages
311
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875806532
SKU
V9780875806532
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About Mark D. Steinberg (Ed.)
Mark D. Steinberg is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and editor of the journal Slavic Review. His most recent books include Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910–1925 and A History of Russia, with Nicholas Riasanovsky, 8th edition. Valeria Sobol is Associate Professor and Language Program Coordinator at the University of Illinois ... Read more

Reviews for Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe
A significant collection that advances a key subject in an important regional history, it should also be of interest to comparativists.
Peter N. Stearns, Provost and Professor of History, George Mason University This volume... presents a series of case studies on the construction, representation, and historical significance of emotion. Though focused on Russia and, to a lesser degree, southeastern ... Read more

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