Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (In-...

Description: Product Description : Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (In-Formation) Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating vigorous and ailing bleak and full of promise Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive in fact they were mutually constitutive This book explores the paradoxes of Soviet life during the period of late socialism 1960s1980s through the eyes of the last Soviet generationFocusing on the major transformation of the 1950s at the level of discourse ideology language and ritual Alexei Yurchak traces the emergence of multiple unanticipated meanings communities relations ideals and pursuits that this transformation subsequently enabled His historical anthropological and linguistic analysis draws on rich ethnographic material from Late Socialism and the postSoviet periodThe model of Soviet socialism that emerges provides an alternative to binary accounts that describe that system as a dichotomy of official culture and unofficial culture the state and the people public self and private self truth and lieand ignore the crucial fact that for many Soviet citizens the fundamental values ideals and realities of socialism were genuinely important although they routinely transgressed and reinterpreted the norms and rules of the socialist state( it is an used product )

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