Russian Intelligentsia In The Age Of Counterperestroika

Author : Dmitri N. Shalin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000020700

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Russian Intelligentsia in the Age of Counterperestroika by Dmitri N. Shalin Pdf

This book examines the phenomenon of intelligentsia as political discourse, civic action, and embodied practice, focusing especially on the political agendas and personal choices confronting intellectuals in modern Russia. Contributors explore the role of the Russian intelligentsia in dismantling the Soviet system and the unanticipated consequences of the resultant changes which threaten the very existence of the intelligentsia as a distinct group. Building on the legacy of John Dewey and Jürgen Habermas, the authors make the case that the intelligentsia plays a critical role in opening communications, widening the range of participants in public discourse, and freeing social intercourse from the constraints nondemocratic political arrangements impose on the communication sphere. Looking at current trends through a variety of different lenses, this book will be of interest to those studying the past, present, and future of the Russian intelligentsia and its impact not only in Russia, but around the world. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Russian Journal of Communication.

Author : Richard Pipes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001550857

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The Russian Intelligentsia by Richard Pipes Pdf

Looks at the condition and prospects of a body of intellectuals known in Russia, pre-Revolutionary and Soviet, as the Intelligentsia. Studies the social function and historic role.

Author : Maureen C. Minielli,Michael R. Finch,Marta N. Lukacovic,Sergei A. Samoilenko
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793641243

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Communication Theory and Application in Post-Socialist Contexts by Maureen C. Minielli,Michael R. Finch,Marta N. Lukacovic,Sergei A. Samoilenko Pdf

While the broader field of communication studies is gaining more global prominence, this is an era when the underrepresented voices are fortunately becoming more recognized. Communication Theory and Application in Post-Socialist Contexts illustrates how Eurasia and Central and Eastern Europe—the post-socialist region—represents a population of more than 400 million who embody a wide array of communication experiences. This book aims to capture significant communication tendencies in several post-socialist countries and situate these tendencies within communication theory and application. It contains the examples of theory-building and adaptation as well as applied projects implemented in national and local contexts. Only by inclusive incorporation of the underrepresented experiences in the field’s discussions can the communication discipline continue to assert its relevance in and for the global community. This book serves as a resource for anyone on the quest of diversifying and globalizing communication studies.

Author : Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307426833

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Medea and Her Children by Ludmila Ulitskaya Pdf

Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pure-blooded Greek in a family that has lived on that coast for centuries. Childless Medea is the touchstone of a large family, which gathers each spring and summer at her home. There are her nieces (sexy Nike and shy Masha), her nephew Georgii (who shares Medea’s devotion to the Crimea), and their friends. In this single summer, the languor of love will permeate the Crimean air, hearts will be broken, and old memories will float to consciousness, allowing us to experience not only the shifting currents of erotic attraction and competition, but also the dramatic saga of this family amid the forces of dislocation, war, and upheaval of twentieth-century Russian life.

Author : Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307772565

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The Funeral Party by Ludmila Ulitskaya Pdf

August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN? This marvelous group of individuals inhabits the first novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya to be published in English, a book that was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and has been praised wherever translated editions have appeared. Simultaneously funny and sad, lyrical in its Russian sorrow and devastatingly keen in its observation of character, The Funeral Party introduces to our shores a wonderful writer who captures, wryly and tenderly, our complex thoughts and emotions confronting life and death, love and loss, homeland and exile.

Author : Edward Luce
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780802188861

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The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce Pdf

An “insightful and harrowing” analysis of the state of Western-style democracy by the Financial Times columnist and author of Time to Start Thinking (The New York Times). In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times columnist Edward Luce charted the course of America’s economic and geopolitical decline, proving to be a prescient voice on the state of the nation. In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce makes a larger statement about the weakening of western hegemony and the crisis of democratic liberalism—of which Donald Trump and his European counterparts are not the cause, but a symptom. Luce argues that we are on a menacing trajectory brought about by ignorance of what it took to build the West, arrogance toward society’s economic losers, and complacency about our system’s durability—attitudes that have been emerging since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Unless the West can rekindle an economy that produces gains for the majority of its people, its political liberties may be doomed. Combining on-the-ground reporting with economic analysis, Luce offers a detailed projection of the consequences of the Trump administration and a forward-thinking analysis of what those who believe in enlightenment values must do to protect them.

Author : Andrzej Walicki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001648984

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Russian Social Thought by Andrzej Walicki Pdf

Author : Andrew Kahn,Mark Lipovetsky,Irina Reyfman,Stephanie Sandler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192549532

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A History of Russian Literature by Andrew Kahn,Mark Lipovetsky,Irina Reyfman,Stephanie Sandler Pdf

Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life. The volume proceeds chronologically in five parts, extending from Kievan Rus' in the 11th century to the present day.The coverage strikes a balance between extensive overview and in-depth thematic focus. Parts are organized thematically in chapters, which a number of keywords that are important literary concepts that can serve as connecting motifs and 'case studies', in-depth discussions of writers, institutions, and texts that take the reader up close and. Visual material also underscores the interrelation of the word and image at a number of points, particularly significant in the medieval period and twentieth century. The History addresses major continuities and discontinuities in the history of Russian literature across all periods, and in particular bring out trans-historical features that contribute to the notion of a national literature. The volume's time-range has the merit of identifying from the early modern period a vital set of national stereotypes and popular folklore about boundaries, space, Holy Russia, and the charismatic king that offers culturally relevant material to later writers. This volume delivers a fresh view on a series of key questions about Russia's literary history, by providing new mappings of literary history and a narrative that pursues key concepts (rather more than individual authorial careers). This holistic narrative underscores the ways in which context and text are densely woven in Russian literature, and demonstrates that the most exciting way to understand the canon and the development of tradition is through a discussion of the interrelation of major and minor figures, historical events and literary politics, literary theory and literary innovation.

Author : Dmitri N Shalin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429966057

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Russian Culture At The Crossroads by Dmitri N Shalin Pdf

The reexamination of values that began during the USSRs last years continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past but dynamic and evolving. Multi-textual, polyphonic, and contradictory, the current Russian cultural discourse is richly reflected in these essays by a diverse group of authors from Russian and American academic and cultural circles. The chapters explore specific cultural domains, surveying Russian and Soviet beliefs and behaviors, and highlighting the range of choices that Russians are facing at this critical juncture. }During the waning years of Soviet power, glasnost laid bare the distress of people trapped in a system they despised but felt powerless to change. The reexamination of values that began then continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past but dynamic and evolving, enabling Russians to meet the challenges they face in the contemporary world. Multi-textual, polyphonic, and contradictory, the current Russian cultural discourse is richly reflected in these essays by a diverse group of authors from Russian and American academic and cultural circles. Each chapter focuses on a particular cultural domain, surveying the historical origins of Russian beliefs and behaviors, exploring their Soviet and post-Soviet permutations, and highlighting the range of choices that Russians are facing at this critical juncture. The decisions they make will shape their society and culture for generations to come.Illuminating the universal significance of the Soviet experience, this volume raises provocative questions about the social, political, and economic sources of cultural change.

Author : Evgeny Dobrenko,Mark Lipovetsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107068513

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Russian Literature since 1991 by Evgeny Dobrenko,Mark Lipovetsky Pdf

An international team of leading experts provide the first comprehensive account of post-Soviet Russian literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Postmodernism
ISBN : OCLC:1149327777

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From Modernism to Postmodernism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yana Hashamova,Beth Holmgren,Mark Lipovetsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317354550

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Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures by Yana Hashamova,Beth Holmgren,Mark Lipovetsky Pdf

Investigating the genesis of the prosecuted "crimes" and implied sins of the female performing group Pussy Riot, the most famous Russian feminist collective to date, the essays in Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Bad to Blasphemous examine what constitutes bad social and political behavior for women in Russia, Poland, and the Balkans, and how and to what effect female performers, activists, and fictional characters have indulged in such behavior. The chapters in this edited collection argue against the popular perceptions of Slavic cultures as overwhelmingly patriarchal and Slavic women as complicit in their own repression, contextualizing proto-feminist and feminist transgressive acts in these cultures. Each essay offers a close reading of the transgressive texts that women authored or in which they figured, showing how they navigated, targeted, and, in some cases, co-opted these obstacles in their bid for agency and power. Topics include studies of how female performers in Poland and Russia were licensed to be bad (for effective comedy and popular/box office appeal), analyses of how women in film and fiction dare sacrilegious behavior in their prescribed roles as daughters and mothers, and examples of feminist political subversion through social activism and performance art.

Author : Mark Lipovetsky,Eliot Borenstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781315293073

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Russian Postmodernist Fiction by Mark Lipovetsky,Eliot Borenstein Pdf

This text offers a critical study of postmodernism in Russian literature. It takes some of the central issues of the critical debate to develop a conception of postmodern poetics as a dialogue with chaos and places Russian literature in the context of an enriched postmodernism.

Author : Mark Naumovich Lipovet͡skiĭ
Publisher : Cultural Revolutions: Russia i
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1934843458

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Charms of the Cynical Reason by Mark Naumovich Lipovet͡skiĭ Pdf

Through an analysis of the representation of tricksters in soviet and post-soviet culture, Lipovetsky attempts to draw a virtual map of cynical reason: to identify its symbols, discourses, contradictions, and by these means, its historical development from the 1920s to the 2000s.

Author : Stuart Ramsay Tompkins
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000131206

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The Russian Intelligentsia by Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Pdf