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

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Label

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

Title remainder

a study of practices

Statement of responsibility

Oleg Kharkhordin

Creator

• Kharkhordin, Oleg, 1964-

Subject

• Collectivisme
• Contrôle social -- URSS
• Culture politique -- URSS
• Electronic books
• Foucault, Michel, (1926-1984) -- Contribution aux sciences sociales
• Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
• Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Contributions in social sciences
• Identité collective -- Russie
• Identité collective -- URSS -- Histoire
• Individualisme
• Individualisme -- Russie
• Individualisme -- URSS -- Histoire
• Individuum
• Kollektiv
• National characteristics, Russian
• National characteristics, Russian
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Cultural Policy
• Political culture
• Political culture -- Soviet Union
• Politische Kultur
• Psychologie sociale -- URSS
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
• Social control
• Social control -- Soviet Union
• Social psychology
• Social psychology -- Soviet Union
• Social sciences
• Soviet Union
• Sovjet-Unie
• Sowjetunion
• Soziale Kontrolle
• Caractère national russe

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

• 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 Christian practices of doing penance in the public gaze. Individualization in Soviet Russia occurred through the intensification of these public penitential practices rather then the private confessional practices that are characteristic of Western Christianity
• He also finds that objectification of the individual in Russia relied on practices of mutual surveillance among peers rather than on the hierarchical surveillance of subordinates by superiors that characterized the West. The implications of this book expand well beyond its analysis of the connection between Bolshevism and Eastern Orthodoxy to shed light on many questions about the nature of Russian society and culture

Member of

• Studies on the history of society and culture, 32

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

306/.0947

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HN523

LC item number

.K48 1999eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Studies on the history of society and culture

Series volume

32