The Vernaculars Of Communism

Author : Petre Petrov,Lara Ryazanova-Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317647478

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The Vernaculars of Communism by Petre Petrov,Lara Ryazanova-Clarke Pdf

The political revolutions which established state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were accompanied by revolutions in the word, as the communist project implied not only remaking the world but also renaming it. As new institutions, social roles, rituals and behaviours emerged, so did language practices that designated, articulated and performed these phenomena. This book examines the use of communist language in the Stalinist and post-Stalinist periods. It goes beyond characterising this linguistic variety as crude "newspeak", showing how official language was much more complex – the medium through which important political-ideological messages were elaborated, transmitted and also contested, revealing contradictions, discursive cleavages and performative variations. The book examines the subject comparatively across a range of East European countries besides the Soviet Union, and draws on perspectives from a range of scholarly disciplines – sociolinguistics, anthropology, literary and cultural studies, historiography, and translation studies. Petre Petrov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Texas at Austin. Lara Ryazanova-Clarke is Head of Russian and Academic Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Centre in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.

Author : Harry Hodgkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Communism
ISBN : UVA:X000597052

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Doubletalk by Harry Hodgkinson Pdf

Author : Aušra Jurgutienė,Dalia Satkauskytė
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644690871

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The Literary Field under Communist Rule by Aušra Jurgutienė,Dalia Satkauskytė Pdf

This volume widens the field of Soviet literature studies by interpreting it as a multinational project, with national literatures acting not as copies of the Russian model, but as creators of a multidimensional literary space. The book proposes a reconsideration of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of literary field and analyzes the interactions of literature, power, and economics under the communist rule. The articles selected include theoretical discussions and case studies from different national literatures presenting different structural elements of the Soviet literary field, as well as phenomena created by the complexity of the field itself, such as the Aesopian language, state of emergency literature, or compromise as the essential element of the writers’ identity.

Author : Peter Coyote
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781644119761

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Zen in the Vernacular by Peter Coyote Pdf

• Shows how Zen offers a creative problem-solving mechanism and moral guide ideal for the stresses and problems of daily life • Shares the author’s secular, vernacular interpretations of the Four Noble Truths, the Three Treasures, the Eightfold Path, and other fundamental Buddhist ideas During the nearly 3,000 years since the Buddha lived, his teachings have spread widely around the globe. In each culture where Buddhism was introduced, the Buddha’s teachings have been pruned and modified to harmonize with local customs, laws, and cultures. We can refer to these modifications as “gift wrapping,” translating the gifts of Buddha’s teachings in ways sensible to particular cultures in particular times. This gift-wrapping explains why Indian, Tibetan, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese, and Indonesian Buddhism have significant differences. In this engaging guide to Zen Buddhism, award-winning actor, narrator, and Zen Buddhist priest Peter Coyote helps us peer beneath the Japanese gift-wrapping of Zen teachings to reveal the fundamental teachings of the Buddha and show how they can be applied to contemporary daily life. The author explains that the majority of Western Buddhists are secular and many don’t meditate, wear robes, shave their heads, or believe in reincarnation. He reminds us that the mental/physical states achieved by Buddhist practice are universal human states, ones we may already be familiar with but perhaps never considered as possessing spiritual dimensions. Exploring Buddha’s core teachings, the author shares his own secular and accessible interpretations of the Four Noble Truths, the Three Treasures, and the Eightfold Path within the context of his lineage and the teachings of his teacher and the teachers before him. He looks at Buddha’s teachings on our singular reality that appears as a multiplicity of things and on the “self” that perceives reality, translating powerful spiritual experience into the vernacular of modern life. Revealing the practical usefulness of Buddhist philosophy and practice, Zen in the Vernacular shows how Zen offers a creative problem-solving mechanism and moral guide ideal for the stresses and problems of everyday life.

Author : Vlad Strukov,Sarah Hudspith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317235583

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Russian Culture in the Age of Globalization by Vlad Strukov,Sarah Hudspith Pdf

This book brings together scholars from across a variety of disciplines who use different methodologies to interrogate the changing nature of Russian culture in the twenty-first century. The book considers a wide range of cultural forms that have been instrumental in globalizing Russia. These include literature, art, music, film, media, the internet, sport, urban spaces, and the Russian language. The book pays special attention to the processes by which cultural producers negotiate between Russian government and global cultural capital. It focuses on the issues of canon, identity, soft power and cultural exchange. The book provides a conceptual framework for analyzing Russia as a transnational entity and its contemporary culture in the globalized world.

Author : Ingunn Lunde
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474421577

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Language on Display by Ingunn Lunde Pdf

Examines the effects of colonialism and independence on modern Arab autobiography written in Arabic, English and French.

Author : James A. Kapaló,Kinga Povedák
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000426069

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The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe by James A. Kapaló,Kinga Povedák Pdf

This book addresses the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the religious underground in communist-era Eastern Europe. It discusses how religious groups were perceived as dangerous to the totalitarian state whilst also being extremely vulnerable and yet at the same time very resourceful. It explores how this particular dynamic created the concept of the "religious underground" and produced an extremely rich secret police archival record. In a series of studies from across the region, the book explores the historical and legal context of secret police entanglement with religious groups, presents case studies on particular anti-religious operations and groups, offers methodological approaches to the secret police materials for the study of religions, and engages in contemporary ethical and political debates on the legacy and meaning of the archives in post-communism.

Author : Zlatko Anguelov
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1585441953

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Communism and the Remorse of an Innocent Victimizer by Zlatko Anguelov Pdf

In moving but understated prose, he describes his own coming to terms with the harm done by compliance and his gradual shift into a more politically active stance."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Gene D. Overstreet
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520346901

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Communism in India by Gene D. Overstreet Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

Author : Jeff Tong
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781482898873

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Education Dilemma in Malaysia by Jeff Tong Pdf

The quality education in modern world had becomes a main concern for any parents who want their child to excel in academic qualifications, in order to have a better future in their carrier, with better wages. The government in any country spends a great amount of fund in dealing with education, which is important in human capital development. Since educational literacy is relative to prosperous economic development for a country, no one can ignore its importance to the society. Some renowned international assessment such as OLIMPIAD, TOEFL, TIMSS, or PISA has being used to evaluate the students academic performance throughout the whole world. But, Malaysia, which is a modern nation, has to deal with a problem, where its assessment performance ranking had decline almost every year. Its assessment performance has nothing different with other third world countries such as African countries. The deteriorating of academic performance might causes by over intervention by political institutions and ineffectiveness of policy implementations. Should education over intervenes by politics, such as what happened at North Korea, Cuba and China? This kind of incident do happened in Malaysia, where the over intervenes by politics in education had causes the deteriorating of academic performance among Malaysian students.

Author : Will Kymlicka
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191522727

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Politics in the Vernacular by Will Kymlicka Pdf

This volume brings together eighteen of Will Kymlicka's recent essays on nationalism, multiculturalism and citizenship. These essays expand on the well-known theory of minority rights first developed in his Multicultural Citizenship. In these new essays, Kymlicka applies his theory to several pressing controversies regarding ethnic relations today, responds to some of his critics, and situates the debate over minority rights within the larger context of issues of nationalism, democratic citizenship and globalization. The essays are divided into four sections. The first section summarizes 'the state of the debate' over minority rights, and explains how the debate has evolved over the past 15 years. The second section explores the requirements of ethnocultural justice in a liberal democracy. Kymlicka argues that the protection of individual human rights is insufficient to ensure justice between ethnocultural groups, and that minority rights must supplement human rights. In particular, Kymlicka explores why some form of power-sharing (such as federalism) is often required to ensure justice for national minorities; why indigenous peoples have distinctive rights relating to economic development and environmental protection; and why we need to define fairer terms of integration for immigrants. The third section focuses on nationalism. Kymlicka discusses some of the familiar misinterpretations and preconceptions which liberals have about nationalism, and defends the need to recognize that there are genuinely liberal forms of nationalism. He discusses the familiar (but misleading) contrast between 'cosmopolitanism' and 'nationalism', and discusses why liberals have gradually moved towards a position that combines elements of both. The final section explores how these increasing demands by ethnic and national groups for minority rights affect the practice of democratic citizenship. Kymlicka surveys recent theories of citizenship, and raises questions about how they are challenged by ethnocultural diversity. He emphasizes the importance of education as a site of conflict between demands for accommodating ethnocultural diversity and demands for promoting the common virtues and loyalties required by democratic citizenship. And, finally, he explores the extent to which 'globalization' requires us to think about citizenship in more global terms, or whether citizenship will remain tied to national institutions and political processes. Taken together, these essays make a major contribution to enriching our understanding of the theory and practice of ethnocultural relations in Western democracies.

Author : Nishat Zaidi,Hans Harder
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000930429

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Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia by Nishat Zaidi,Hans Harder Pdf

This volume critically engages with recent formulations and debates regarding the status of the regional languages of the Indian subcontinent vis-à-vis English. It explores how language ideologies of the “vernacular” are positioned in relation to the language ideologies of English in South Asia. The book probes into how we might move beyond the English-vernacular binary in India, explores what happened to “bhasha literatures” during the colonial and post-colonial periods and how to position those literatures by the side of Indian English and international literature. It looks into the ways vernacular community and political rhetoric are intertwined with Anglophone (national or global) positionalities and their roles in political processes. This book will be of interest to researchers, students and scholars of literary and cultural studies, Indian Writing in English, Indian literatures, South Asian languages and popular culture. It will also be extremely valuable for language scholars, sociolinguists, social historians, scholars of cultural studies and those who understand the theoretical issues that concern the notion of “vernacularity”.

Author : Alex Taek-Gwang Lee,Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781784783969

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The Idea of Communism 3 by Alex Taek-Gwang Lee,Slavoj Zizek Pdf

An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communist principles In 2009 Slavoj Žižek brought together an acclaimed group of intellectuals to discuss the continued relevance of communism. Unexpectedly the conference attracted an audience of over 1,000 people. The discussion has continued across the world and this book gathers responses from the conference in Seoul. It includes the interventions of regular contributors Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, as well as work from across Asia, notably from Chinese scholar Wang Hui, offering regional perspectives on communism in an era of global economic crisis and political upheaval.

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Classification
ISBN : UIUC:30112077499561

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CIA Library Subject Headings and Classed Schedules for Law, Communism and the Communist Parties, Intelligence and Security by United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Library Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116491754

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)