EAN: 9781350167728

THE AFTERLIFE OF THE SOVIET MAN - GULNAZ SHARAF...

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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