The canon and the mushroom
| Autor: | Alexei Yurchak |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Literature
060101 anthropology business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Canon 06 humanities and the arts Sovereignty Anthropology Law 0601 history and archaeology Ideology Sociology Soviet union business 050703 geography Communism media_common |
| Zdroj: | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 7:165-198 |
| ISSN: | 2049-1115 2575-1433 |
| DOI: | 10.14318/hau7.2.021 |
| Popis: | This essay focuses on a paradoxical transformation that happened within Soviet ideological discourse at the very end of perestroika, around 1990–91. The Party’s attempts to revitalize Soviet ideology by returning to the original word of Lenin unexpectedly produced the opposite result. The unquestionable external Truth from which Soviet ideological discourse drew its legitimacy—and that had always been identical with Lenin’s word—suddenly could no longer be known. This shift launched a rapid unraveling of the Soviet communist project. At the center of this unexpected transformation was the search for the true Lenin—a kind of Lenin that Soviet party theorists, bureaucrats, historians, and scientists hoped was still hidden in the midst of his unpublished texts and unknown facts of his biology, life, and death. |
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