Homo Sovieticus

Author : Wladimir Velminski
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262035699

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Homo Sovieticus by Wladimir Velminski Pdf

How Soviet scientists and pseudoscientists pursued telepathic research, cybernetic simulations, and mass hyptonism over television to control the minds of citizens. In October 1989, as the Cold War was ending and the Berlin Wall about to crumble, television viewers in the Soviet Union tuned in to the first of a series of unusual broadcasts. “Relax, let your thoughts wander free...” intoned the host, the physician and clinical psychotherapist Anatoly Mikhailovich Kashpirovsky. Moscow's Channel One was attempting mass hypnosis over television, a therapeutic session aimed at reassuring citizens panicked over the ongoing political upheaval—and aimed at taking control of their responses to it. Incredibly enough, this last-ditch effort to rally the citizenry was the culmination of decades of official telepathic research, cybernetic simulations, and coded messages undertaken to reinforce ideological conformity. In Homo Sovieticus, the art and media scholar Wladimir Velminski explores these scientific and pseudoscientific efforts at mind control. In a fascinating series of anecdotes, Velminski describes such phenomena as the conflation of mental energy and electromagnetism; the investigation of aura fields through the “Aurathron”; a laboratory that practiced mind control methods on dogs; and attempts to calibrate the thought processes of laborers. “Scientific” diagrams from the period accompany the text. In all of the experimental methods for implanting thoughts into a brain, Velminski finds political and metaphorical contaminations. These apparently technological experiments in telepathy and telekinesis were deployed for purely political purposes.

Author : Aleksandr Zinoviev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:39000004253485

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Homo Sovieticus by Aleksandr Zinoviev Pdf

Author : Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350167742

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The Afterlife of the ‘Soviet Man’ by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova Pdf

Almost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, today more often than ever, global media and intellectuals rely on the concept of homo sovieticus to explain Russia's authoritarian ills. Homo sovieticus - or the Soviet man - is understood to be a double-thinking, suspicious and fearful conformist with no morality, an innate obedience to authority and no public demands; they have been forged in the fires of the totalitarian conditions in which they find themselves. But where did this concept come from? What analytical and ideological pillars does it stand on? What is at stake in using this term today? The Afterlife of the 'Soviet Man' addresses all these questions and even explains why – at least in its contemporary usage – this concept should be abandoned altogether.

Author : Geoffrey A. Hosking
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113411388

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Homo Sovieticus, Or, Homo Sapiens ? by Geoffrey A. Hosking Pdf

Author : Masha Gessen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594634536

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The Future Is History by Masha Gessen Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and POP SUGAR The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own--as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195050004

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Everyday Stalinism by Sheila Fitzpatrick Pdf

Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, landing a job, and other acts.

Author : Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Communism and society
ISBN : 1350167754

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The Afterlife of the 'Soviet Man' by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova Pdf

"Almost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, today more often than ever, global media and intellectuals rely on the concept of homo sovieticus to explain Russia's authoritarian ills. Homo sovieticus - or the Soviet man - is understood to be a double-thinking, suspicious and fearful conformist with no morality, an innate obedience to authority and no public demands; they have been forged in the fires of the totalitarian conditions in which they find themselves. But where did this concept come from? What analytical and ideological pillars does it stand on? What is at stake in using this term today? The Afterlife of the 'Soviet Man' addresses all these questions and even explains why -- at least in its contemporary usage -- this concept should be abandoned altogether."--

Author : Carl de Keyzer,Philippe Vandenberghe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 9012063043

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U.S.S.R, 1989, [S.S.S.R.] by Carl de Keyzer,Philippe Vandenberghe Pdf

Author : Edward J. O'Boyle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475761672

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Personalist Economics by Edward J. O'Boyle Pdf

Personalist Economics: Moral Convictions, Economic Realities, and Social Action examines the nature of the worker and consumer from a personalist perspective, comparing that body of knowledge to what is received from conventional economics. A running theme throughout this book is that personalist economics is attentive to both aspects of human material need - physical need and the need for work as such - in a way that does not disregard human wants. Accordingly, this book is more concerned about the philosophical base and description of the economy's significant characteristics than social economic policy. Personalist Economics explores four dimensions of particularly acute human physical need: unemployment, poverty, homelessness, and death. In addressing these four aspects of need, the book delves into the second and third domains of social economics: description of the significant characteristics of the economy, and social economic policy. In the same way, Personalist Economics explores two types of economic cooperation - supra-firm alliances and inter-firm partnerships - as means for addressing certain aspects of human material need. This book concludes with a lengthy discussion of the challenges facing personalist economics in the years ahead.

Author : Victoria E. Bonnell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0520924061

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Iconography of Power by Victoria E. Bonnell Pdf

Masters at visual propaganda, the Bolsheviks produced thousands of vivid and compelling posters after they seized power in October 1917. Intended for a semi-literate population that was accustomed to the rich visual legacy of the Russian autocracy and the Orthodox Church, political posters came to occupy a central place in the regime's effort to imprint itself on the hearts and minds of the people and to remold them into the new Soviet women and men. In this first sociological study of Soviet political posters, Victoria Bonnell analyzes the shifts that took place in the images, messages, styles, and functions of political art from 1917 to 1953. Everyone who lived in Russia after the October revolution had some familiarity with stock images of the male worker, the great communist leaders, the collective farm woman, the capitalist, and others. These were the new icons' standardized images that depicted Bolshevik heroes and their adversaries in accordance with a fixed pattern. Like other "invented traditions" of the modern age, iconographic images in propaganda art were relentlessly repeated, bringing together Bolshevik ideology and traditional mythologies of pre-Revolutionary Russia. Symbols and emblems featured in Soviet posters of the Civil War and the 1920s gave visual meaning to the Bolshevik worldview dominated by the concept of class. Beginning in the 1930s, visual propaganda became more prescriptive, providing models for the appearance, demeanor, and conduct of the new social types, both positive and negative. Political art also conveyed important messages about the sacred center of the regime which evolved during the 1930s from the celebration of the heroic proletariat to the deification of Stalin. Treating propaganda images as part of a particular visual language, Bonnell shows how people "read" them—relying on their habits of seeing and interpreting folk, religious, commercial, and political art (both before and after 1917) as well as the fine art traditions of Russia and the West. Drawing on monumental sculpture and holiday displays as well as posters, the study traces the way Soviet propaganda art shaped the mentality of the Russian people (the legacy is present even today) and was itself shaped by popular attitudes and assumptions. Iconography of Power includes posters dating from the final decades of the old regime to the death of Stalin, located by the author in Russian, American, and English libraries and archives. One hundred exceptionally striking posters are reproduced in the book, many of them never before published. Bonnell places these posters in a historical context and provides a provocative account of the evolution of the visual discourse on power in Soviet Russia.

Author : Stanisław Barańczak
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674081250

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Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays by Stanisław Barańczak Pdf

In essays on issues from censorship to underground poetry, Baranczak explores the role that culture--and particularly literature--has played in keeping the spirit of intellectual independence alive in Eastern and Central Europe.

Author : Michael Kirkwood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349124831

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Alexander Zinoviev: An Introduction to His Work by Michael Kirkwood Pdf

Zinoviev's twin themes are the nature of Soviet communist society and the West's inability to understand it. It is the purpose of this book to trace the development of his thinking via a chronological analysis of his most important works.

Author : Tony Killick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134816446

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The Flexible Economy by Tony Killick Pdf

The accelerating pace of global change demands that economies must be adaptable. Economies which are flexible flourish, as in Eastern Asia. Inflexible economies stagnate, as in Eastern Europe and Africa. However even though adaptability governs the long-term progress of economies, economists have had little to say about the nature and determinants of economic flexibility. This book redresses that situation. A prestigious team of contributors address the key theoretical and empirical issues, using a wide range of country studies.

Author : Svetlana Alexievich
Publisher : Juggernaut Books
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Oral history
ISBN : 9788193237243

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Second-hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich Pdf

Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich invents a new genre of narrative non-fiction as she writes the life stories of housewives, artists, party workers, students, soldiers, traders, living through a time of political upheaval -- the fall of the Soviet Union and the two decades that followed it.

Author : Nancy Condee
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 025331402X

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Soviet Hieroglyphics by Nancy Condee Pdf

[The Russian and American contributors] share a very high level of expertise and an impressive command of their material, which ranges from film to billboards to currency. Everything in this book, including the introduction, is worth reading... consistently fascinating... -- Choice... a lightning rush of images and ideas that constitute inviting material for future speculation. -- Times Literary SupplementThis collection of essays is a fine, even an exhilarating piece of work. Her brilliant analysis surveys a kaleidoscope of breaks and continuities: betweeen literature and non-print media, high culture and popular culture, homo sovieticus and homo russicus. -- Slavic and East European JournalOf interest for scholars in several disciplines, Soviet Hieroglyphics provides many insights into recent Russian visual culture. -- Canadian Slavonic PaperThese incisive essays describe contemporary Russian culture under conditions of social collapse. Focusing on visual culture, the book highlights the recurrent tension between two opposing tendencies in Russia today: the impulse to eradicate the cultural hieroglyphics of the Soviet past and the compulsion to reinscribe those sacred images onto contemporary texts.