What is Soviet Now?: Identities, Legacies, MemoriesThomas Lahusen, Peter H. Solomon LIT Verlag Münster, 2008 - 324 pàgines Economists and political scientists wrestle with the challenges faced by Russian officials and public alike in adapting to a market economy and democracy, including the fragility of property rights and elections still rooted in old institutional structures. This book examines the reforms of health and welfare, and the hierarchy of privilege and access, and consider how Putin's statist approach to mythmaking compares to that of previous Soviet and post-Soviet regimes. Historians and anthropologists explore the issue of nostalgia, gender, punishment, belief, and how history itself is being created and perceived today. The book concludes with a journey through the ruined landscape of real socialism. |
Continguts
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PostSoviet Bureaucrats and the Production | 40 |
The Development | 78 |
Boris Mironovs A Social History | 93 |
Whos Afraid of Joseph Stalin? Tracy McDonald | 133 |
Whither AntiStalinism? Kathleen E Smith | 153 |
Nostalgia for Soviet | 173 |
Rights Privileges and Responsibilities | 192 |
The Legacy of Soviet | 214 |
Space and Gender in PostSoviet | 234 |
Pioneers Cosmonauts and Other | 257 |
An Excavation of | 277 |
Decay or Endurance? The Ruins of Socialism | 307 |
Contributors | 321 |
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Pàgina 27 - As soon as there is no longer any social class to be held in subjection; as soon as class rule, and the individual struggle for existence based upon our present anarchy in production, with the collisions and excesses arising from these, are removed, nothing more remains to be repressed, and a special repressive force, a state, is no longer necessary.
Pàgina 26 - In the long run we are all dead. . . . the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I...
Pàgina 27 - State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself ; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not 'abolished.
Pàgina 28 - He receives a certificate from society that he has furnished such and such an amount of labour (after deducting his labour for the common funds), and with this certificate he draws from the social stock of means of consumption as much as costs the same amount of labour. The same amount of labour which he has given to society in one form he receives back in another.
Pàgina 26 - In its rational form it is a scandal and abomination to bourgeoisdom and its' doctrinaire professors because it includes in its comprehension and affirmative recognition of the existing state of things, at the same time also, the recognition of the negation of that state, of its inevitable breaking up...