The Collective and the Individual in Russia: A Study of Practices Volume 32

by Oleg Kharkhordin

Book Overview

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 each Communist to reflect intensely and repeatedly on his or her "self," an entirely novel experience for many of them--had their antecedents in the Orthodox...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520216040
• ISBN13: 9780520216044
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"