The Social Scientist Meets the 'Believer': Discussions of God, the Afterlife, and Communism in the Mid-1960s
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 1, S. 79
ISSN: 0037-6779
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In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 1, S. 79
ISSN: 0037-6779
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 423-424
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 1, S. 127-152
ISSN: 2325-7784
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed the construction and naturalization of many unitary ethnolinguistic categories that would serve diverse ends within the Russian and Soviet states. This article combines disciplinary perspectives from linguistic anthropology and history to excavate the local history of one such category–the Buriat language. We trace the category's origin in the grammars, translations, and correspondence of its first Russian proponents, Russian Orthodox missionary linguists working in the area around Lake Baikal, and its subsequent uptake by Buriat nationalists and Soviet linguists. We show that the missionaries and their religious motivations played a significant role in the construction of ethnolinguistic categories and that these ethnolinguistic categories were not, as is often thought, predominantly imposed by the center onto distant peripheries. Attending to Orthodox missionaries' linguistic work in the Baikal region reveals the more complex local workings of colonial power.
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 288
ISSN: 0037-6779
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 392-393
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 1, S. 208-210
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 400-401
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 265
ISSN: 0037-6779
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 420-421
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 3, S. 694-694
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In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 1, S. 165-166
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 3, S. 600-603
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 1, S. f1-f6
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 334-353
ISSN: 2325-7784
The Soviet 1920s and '30s saw heated debate around the issue of laughter, with writers and political actors alike asking, should the Soviet person laugh at all, and if so, how? This article considers the birth of Soviet laughter as reflected in Il'ia Il'f and Evgenii Petrov's popular satirical novels,The Twelve Chairs(1928) andThe Golden Calf(1931). I argue that Il'f and Petrov's relatively consistent critical unassailability throughout the Soviet period rests on two techniques. First, they acknowledge trauma without dwelling on it—it is always already in the past, with dramatic focus placed instead on the socialist future. Second, they encourage collective, outward-oriented laughter, stimulating Soviet citizens to unite themselves against the possible enemies of socialism. Thus, despite its inclusion of some subversive elements (like the ideologically volatile trickster Ostap Bender), Il'f and Petrov's satire was at the vanguard of what became official literary ideology.
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 74, Heft 4, S. 894-895
ISSN: 2325-7784