Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Patriotism of DespairCondition: NewSubtitle: Nation, War, and Loss in RussiaAuthor: Serguei Alex. OushakineFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0801475570EAN: 9780801475573ISBN: 9780801475573Publisher: Cornell University PressGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Law & Politics, Social Sciences, HistoryRelease Date: 04/30/2009Description: The sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union altered the routines, norms, celebrations, and shared understandings that had shaped the lives of Russians for generations. It also meant an end to the state-sponsored, nonmonetary support that most residents had lived with all their lives. How did Russians make sense of these historic transformations? Serguei Alex Oushakine offers a compelling look at postsocialist life in Russia. In Barnaul, a major industrial city in southwestern Siberia that has lost 25 percent of its population since 1991, many Russians are finding that what binds them together is loss and despair. The Patriotism of Despair examines the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, graphically described in spray paint by a graffiti artist in Barnaul: "We have no Motherland." Once socialism disappeared as a way of understanding the world, what replaced it in people's minds? Once socialism stopped orienting politics and economics, how did capitalism insinuate itself into routine practices? Serguei Alex. Oushakine offers a compelling look at postsocialist life in noncosmopolitan Russia. He introduces readers to the "neocoms": people who mourn the loss of the Soviet economy and the remonetization of transactions that had not involved the exchange of cash during the Soviet era. Moving from economics into military conflict and personal loss, Oushakine also describes the ways in which veterans of the Chechen war and mothers of soldiers who died there have connected their immediate experiences with the country's historical disruptions. The country, the nation, and traumatized individuals, Oushakine finds, are united by their vocabulary of shared pain.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 454gBook Series: Culture and Society after SocialismType: TextbookRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Patriotism of Despair
Title: The Patriotism of Despair
Subtitle: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia
ISBN-10: 0801475570
EAN: 9780801475573
ISBN: 9780801475573
Release Date: 04/30/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Culture and Society after Socialism
Type: Textbook
Book Title: Patriotism of Despair : Nation, War, and Loss in Russia
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2009
Topic: Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Sociology / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
Item Height: 0.8 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Serguei Alex. Oushakine
Item Width: 6 in
Book Series: Culture and Society after Socialism Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
