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Title Interpreting emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe / edited by Mark D. Steinberg and Valeria Sobol
Edition First digital edition
Published DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, 2011
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Contents "The queen of lofty thoughts" : the cult of melancholy in Russian sentimentalism / Ilya Vinitsky -- Leaving your family in 1797 : two identities of Mikhail Muravʹev / Andrei Zorin -- Radicals and feelings : the 1860s / Victoria Frede -- Shame and modern subjectivities : the rape of Elizaveta Cheremnova / Alexandra Oberländer -- Thinking about feelings : affective dispositions and emotional ties in imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Bolsheviks and emotional hermeneutics : the great purges, Bukharin, and the February-March Plenum of 1937 / Glennys Young -- Breaking the silence : Iurii Bondarev's quietness between the "sincerity" and "civic emotion" of the thaw / Polly Jones -- Emplaced and displaced : theorizing the emotions of space in the former Yugoslavia / Judith Pintar -- A genealogy of working-class anger : history, emotions, and political economy in Romania's Jiu Valley / Jack Friedman -- Music, emotion, and the "other" : Balkan Roma and the negotiation of exoticism / Carol Silverman -- Emotional blueprints : war songs as an affective medium / Serguei Alex. Oushakine
Summary Bringing together important new work by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe approaches emotions as a phenomenon complexly intertwined with society, culture, politics, and history. The stories in this book involve sensitive aristocrats, committed revolutionaries, aggressive nationalists, political leaders, female victims of sexual violence, perpetrators and victims of Stalinist terror, citizens in the former Yugoslavia in the wake of war, workers in post-socialist Romania, Balkan Romani "Gypsy" musicians, and veterans of the Afghan and Chechen wars. These essays explore emotional perception and expression not only as private, inward feeling but also as a way of interpreting and judging a troubled world, acting in it, and perhaps changing it. Essential reading for those interested in new perspectives on the study of Russia and Eastern Europe, past and present, this volume will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities who are seeking new and deeper approaches to understanding human experience, thought, and feeling
Analysis emotions and society, emotions and culture, emotion and politics, emotion and history, Russia and Eastern Europe, social sciences in Russia and Eastern Europe
Notes Papers from a conference held at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in summer 2008
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 18, 2020)
Subject Emotions -- Social aspects -- Russia -- History -- Congresses
Emotions -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- Congresses
Emotions -- Political aspects -- Russia -- History -- Congresses
Emotions -- Political aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- Congresses
Social change -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- Congresses
Emotions -- Political aspects
Emotions -- Social aspects
Manners and customs
Politics and government
Social change
SUBJECT Russia -- Social life and customs -- Congresses
Europe, Eastern -- Social life and customs -- Congresses
Russia -- Politics and government -- Congresses
Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- Congresses
Subject Eastern Europe
Russia
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Steinberg, Mark D., 1953- editor.
Sobol, Valeria, editor.
ISBN 9781609090234
1609090233
9781501757174
1501757172