The rule of reality and the reality of the rule (on Soviet ideology and its "shift").
The present article is a critical engagement with Aleksei Yurchak's Everything Was Forever until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. It contends that, as rich as Yurchak's insights on the language culture of Brezhnev's Stagnation have proven to be, his account ends up seriously misrepresenti...
| Publicado en: | Studies in East European Thought Vol. 73; no. 4; pp. 435 - 458 |
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