Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More – The Last Soviet Generation (In-Formation)

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Post-Post-Soviet Sincerity: Young pioneers, Cosmonauts and other Soviet heroes born today,” in What is Soviet Now?Thomas Lahusen and Peter Solomon, eds. LIT Verlag, 2008. in Russian). Smena Center of Contemporary Culture. 30 June 2016. Event occurs at 4:17–4:41 . Retrieved 9 July 2023– via YouTube. Yurchak rewrote the book in Russian, expanding and revising it considerably. It was published in 2014 by Moscow's New Literary Observer and won the 2015 Enlightener Prize in the Humanities category. [7] Books [ edit ] Recorded and mixed at Lost River, Lascelles and the Rigaud Ranch, Quebec from November 2020 to April 2021.

Amidst these prolix transformations in Russian language and civilization, Yurchak's contribution has come in the form of a deep listening."—Bruce Grant, Slavic Review Night Dances With the Angel of History: Critical Cultural Studies of Postsocialism,” in Cultural Studies. Aleksandr Etkind, ed. St. Petersburg: European University Press, 2006. Lccn 2004042384 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA13736 Openlibrary_edition Yurchak coined the term "hypernormalization" in his 2005 book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. The book focused on the political, social and cultural conditions during what he terms "late socialism" (the period after Stalinism but before perestroika, mid-1950s – mid-1980s) which led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. [5] A difficult 3 stars to give, because in many respects this is an amazing book. My issues with it are small, but significant in the overall project, I think.

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Winner of the 2007 AAASS Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation написал и опубликовал в 2005. Русский вариант не совсем та книга, которую писал первоначально, "Это было навсегда, пока не кончилось. Последнее советское поколение" - авторский, в значительной мере отредактированный перевод, который вышел в 2015.

Male Economy. Business and Gender in post-Soviet Russia,” in On (Fe)Maleness. Oushakine, Sergei, ed. Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2001. Privatize Your Name: Symbolic Work in a Post-Soviet Linguistic Market” - Journal of Sociolinguistics, 3 (4), 2000. This book is nearly unreadable tripe (although to be fair I gave up halfway through). It’s not the dense prose; that would be acceptable. But I knew I was in trouble when in the first, introductory, chapter there were endless praising references to clowns such as Deleuze, Foucault, and Judith Butler. Then Yurchak starts telling us how by using the tools offered by these clowns, we could see how people really thought in the late Soviet Union, which apparently was that socialism had many good aspects, not to be found elsewhere, such as “humane values, ethics, friendships, and creative possibilities.” Yeah, no. Yurchak was born on 21 July 1960 [2] and raised in Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg), Soviet Union. [1] He was trained as a physicist and managed a local musical group, AVIA. [3] He then moved to the United States, where he received his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Duke University in 1997. [4] "Hypernormalization" [ edit ]Entrepreneurial Governmentality in Post-Socialist Russia: A cultural investigation of business practices,” in The New Entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia, V. E. Bonnell and T. B. Gold, eds. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. Alexei Yurchak brilliantly debunks several widely held misconceptions about the lived experience of late socialism in Soviet Russia, and does so through a compelling dossier of materials, all creatively conceived, organized, and analyzed. The writing is fluid, accessible, interesting, and beautifully structured and styled."—Nancy Ries, Colgate University, author of Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroika Alexei Yurchak's Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More immediately seduced me by its very title with a profound philosophical implication that eternity is a historical category—things can be eternal for some time. The same spirit of paradox runs through the entire book—it renders in wonderful details the gradual disintegration of the Soviet system from within its ideological and cultural space, making visible all the hypocrisy and misery of this process. I consider Yurchak's book by far the best work about the late epoch of the Soviet Union—it is not just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work of art." —Slavoj Zizek, author of In Defense of Lost Causes

The book is interesting and debatable, however, it was incredibly difficult to read. The author, for some reason that I don't understand, has chosen a very complicated way of conveying his ideas to the readers. Soviet Hegemony of Form: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 3 (45), July 2003. As a newcomer to this type of academic cultural commentary, some of the arguments Yurchak proposes in this book were probably a bit more novel to me than the average reader; This is really my only point of reference into this world so if what he is saying is really misguided I wouldn't know. I lived in Ukraine in the late 1990s and many of the forms of language and of communicating were still in use. In some spheres of life in Kazakhstan where I live now, the Soviet forms of speech have been adapted and replicated. Necro-utopia: The Politics of Indistinction and the Art of the Non-Soviet,” Current Anthropology, 2 (49), 2008.

Past Winners of the ASEEES Vucinich Book Prize". aseees.org. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies . Retrieved 9 July 2023. Yurchak claims that he’s trying to solve a supposed paradox, that everyone in the Soviet Union thought it was permanent, until suddenly it wasn’t. That’s not a paradox; that’s the path of every empire ever. Moreover, many, probably most, who lived under Communism knew perfectly well that, because it denied reality, it wouldn’t last forever. They just didn’t when it would end, and they had to live in the meantime. Which, for most, meant living a lie all the time—again, on which one should read Havel or Solzhenitsyn. Tracing a Woman's Image: Symbolic Work of the New Advertising Discourse,” in Woman and Visual Signs. Alchuk, Alla, ed. Moscow: Russian State Humanitarian University Press, 2000. This ambitious book admirably combines a new theoretical approach with detailed ethnographic materials. Written in a clear and engaging style, it is both thorough and precise, and provides a new and convincing insight that will definitely be central to all serious discussions of Soviet-type systems for years to come—namely, that the shift in Soviet life from a semantic to a pragmatic model of ideological discourse served to undermine the ideological system."—Caroline Humphrey, University of Cambridge, author of The Unmaking of Soviet Life

Russian Neoliberal: The Entrepreneurial Ethic and the Spirit of New Careerism,” in Russian Review, 1 (62), 2003.Gagarin and the Rave Kids: Transforming Power, Identity, and Aesthetics in the Post-Soviet Night Life,” in Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society Since Gorbachev. A. Baker, ed. Duke University Press, 1999.