The collective and the individual in Russia : a study of practices /

Oleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet, individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is about Russia. Examining the period from the Russian Revolution to the fall of Gorbachev, Kharkhordin demonstrates that Party rituals - which forced ea...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Kharkhordin, Oleg, 1964-
Formaat: Licensed eBooks
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ©1999.
Reeks:Studies on the history of society and culture ; 32.
Online toegang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2392263
Inhoudsopgave:
  • 1. Introduction: Individualism and the Study of Practices
  • 2. Reveal, Admonish, Excommunicate: Ecclesiastical Courts and the Central Control Commission
  • 3. A "Technology of no Mercy": The Collective as an Object of Knowledge and Action
  • 4. Purge and Self-Criticism: The Collective as a Subject of Knowledge and Action
  • 5. Revealing the Self: The Individual as an Object of Knowledge and Action
  • 6. Working on Oneself: The Individual as a Subject of Knowledge and Action
  • 7. The Collective in Mature Soviet Society
  • 8. The Individual in Mature Soviet Society
  • 9. Conclusion.