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1 online resource (303 pages) |
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Contents; Introduction; Part I. THE SICKLE, THE HAMMER, AND THE TYPEWRITER; Chapter 01. Ideas against Ideocracy: The Platonic Drama of Russian Thought; Chapter 02. Asking for More: Finding Utopia in the Critical Sociology of the Budapest School and the Praxis Movement; Chapter 03. Aesthetics: A Modus Vivendi in Eastern Europe?; Chapter 04. Changing Perceptions of Pavel Florensky in Russian and Soviet Scholarship; Part II. HERETICS; Chapter 05. The Totalitarian Languages of Utopia and Dystopia: Fidelius and Havel; Chapter 06. Philosophy and Martyrdom: The Case of Jan Patocka |
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Chapter 07. Anticommunist Orientalism: Shifting Boundaries of Europe in Dissident WritingPart III: IN SEARCH OF A (NEW) MISSION; Chapter 08. Somatic Nationalism: Theorizing Post-Soviet Ethnicity in Russia; Chapter 09. Balkanism and Postcolonialism, or On the Beauty of the Airplane View; chapter 10. Anxious Intellectuals: Framing the Nation as Class in Belarus; Part IV. REINVENTING HOPE; Chapater 11. The Demise of Leninism and t |
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Despite its key role in the intellectual shaping of state socialism, Communist ideas are often dismissed as mere propaganda or as a rhetorical exercise aimed at advancing socialist intellectuals on their way to power. By drawing attention to unknown and unexplored areas, trends and ways of thinking under socialism, the volume examines Eastern Europe and Russian histories of intellectual movements inspired - negatively as well as positively - by Communist arguments and dogmas. Through an interdisciplinarydialogue, the collection demonstrates how various bodies of theoretical knowledge (philosop |
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Intellectuals -- Europe, Eastern
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Intellectuals -- Soviet Union
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Intellectuals -- Russia (Federation)
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Power (Social sciences) -- Europe, Eastern
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Power (Social sciences) -- Soviet Union
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Power (Social sciences) -- Russia (Federation)
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Intellectuals -- Russia.
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Intellectual life
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Intellectuals
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Power (Social sciences)
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Europe, Eastern -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97003680
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Soviet Union -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125824
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Russia (Federation) -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95005570
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Eastern Europe
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Russia (Federation)
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Soviet Union
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Electronic book
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9780739136263 |
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0739136267 |
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