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The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia

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Description for The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia Paperback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 312 pages, 34. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.

The sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union altered the routines, norms, celebrations, and shared understandings that had shaped the lives of Russians for generations. It also meant an end to the state-sponsored, nonmonetary support that most residents had lived with all their lives. How did Russians make sense of these historic transformations? Serguei Alex. Oushakine offers a compelling look at postsocialist life in Russia.

In Barnaul, a major industrial city in southwestern Siberia that has lost 25 percent of its population since 1991, many Russians are finding that what binds them together is loss and despair. The Patriotism of Despair ... Read more

Oushakine offers a compelling look at postsocialist life in noncosmopolitan Russia. He introduces readers to the "neocoms": people who mourn the loss of the Soviet economy and the remonetization of transactions that had not involved the exchange of cash during the Soviet era. Moving from economics into military conflict and personal loss, Oushakine also describes the ways in which veterans of the Chechen war and mothers of soldiers who died there have connected their immediate experiences with the country's historical disruptions. The country, the nation, and traumatized individuals, Oushakine finds, are united by their vocabulary of shared pain.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Culture and Society After Socialism
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801475573
SKU
V9780801475573
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About Serguei Alex. Oushakine
Serguei Alex. Oushakine is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.

Reviews for The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia
The Patriotism of Despair brilliantly demonstrates that 'culture matters more than ever' during periods of societal transformation. Serguei Oushakine investigates a range of groups—nationalist activists and intellectuals, war veterans and soldiers' mothers—that form communities of loss around symbolic representations and ritual enactments of shared trauma in Russia. Based on fieldwork from 2001–2003 in the city of Bernaull in Southwestern Siberia, ... Read more

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