The Afterlife of the 'Soviet Man'

Rethinking Homo Sovieticus

The Afterlife of the 'Soviet Man'
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
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23 Feb 2023 UK
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Almost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, today more often than ever, global media and intellectuals rely on the concept of homo sovieticus to explain Russia' s authoritarian ills. Homo sovieticus - or the Soviet man - is understood to be a double-thinking, suspicious and fearful conformist with no morality, an innate obedience to authority and no public demands; they have been forged in the fires of the totalitarian conditions in which they find themselves. But where did this concept come from? What analytical and ideological pillars does it stand on? What is at stake in using this term today? The Afterlife of the ' Soviet Man' addresses all these questions and even explains why - at least in its contemporary usage - this concept should be abandoned altogether.

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Gulnaz Sharafutdinova is Reader in Russian Politics at King' s College London (King' s Russia Institute), UK. She is the author of Political Consequences of Crony Capitalism Inside Russia (2011) and the co-editor, along with Neringa Klumbyte, of Soviet Society In The Era of Late Socialism, 1964-1985 (2012).
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ISBN-13: 9781350167728
Published: 23 Feb 2023
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 136

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