Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Yurchak, Alexei
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Yurchak, Alexei

Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation

Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To...
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Yurchak, Alexei

Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation

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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Yurchak, Alexei

Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation

$101.69
Author: Alexei Yurchak
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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" (1960s-1980s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation.

Focusing 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 post-Soviet period.

The 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 lie--and 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.

Author: Alexei Yurchak
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 10/23/2005
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.12w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780691121178

About the Author
Alexei Yurchak is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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