How The Soviet System Works, Cultural, Psychological, and Social Themes.

Eldor, Regina; Bauer, Raymond A.; Kluckhohn, Clyde; Fr.-Chirovsky, Nicholas L.; Deutscher, Isaac; Dinerstein, Herbert S.; Goure, Leon; Fischer, George; Guins, George C.; Kautsky, John H.; Korol, Alexander G.; Lasky, Melvin J.; Seton‐Watson, Hugh; Bondy, François; Leontovitsch, Victor; Metaxas, Alexander; Rostow, W. W.; Tang, Peter S. H.; Tompkins, Stuart R.

doi:10.2307/1984641

Military Affairs

1958

DOI: 10.2307/1984641

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How The Soviet System Works, Cultural, Psychological, and Social Themes.

Regina Eldor¹,

Raymond A. Bauer²,

Clyde Kluckhohn³

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The Black Box: Notes on the Anthropology of the Enemy

Ссорин-Чайков¹

2008

Inner Asia

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This article critically revisits the Foucauldian perspective on modernity by exploring the constitutive importance of limits of transparency in relations of power and knowledge. It differentiates between Foucault's Panopticon as a model for modernity, which posits a total visibility of subject under modern gaze, and what I call cybernetic ways of knowing that posit the 'black box' of the inner self that is blocked from visibility. The case in point is a comparative study of two anthropologies – two groups of anthropological cadres – the American anthropologists who in the 1940s were involved in emerging Soviet studies, and Soviet anthropologists of the 1920s and 1930s who took part in Soviet reforms. The article draws attention to similarities in their perspective of images and notions of the enemy: the 'enemy of the people' within Soviet society and the Soviet society as the West's Cold War enemy. In doing so, the aim of this article is to develop an ethnographic perspective on state socialism that does not depend on a foundational dualist distinction between 'Soviet' and 'Western' or 'socialist' and 'capitalist' modernity as a starting point.

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The Black Box: Notes on the Anthropology of the Enemy

Ссорин-Чайков¹

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Values Underlying the Information Culture in Communist and Post-Communist Russia (1917−1999)

Smaele

2015

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In this article the concept of information culture-understood as the dominant handling of information, shared by a dominant proportion of journalists, the public, authorities and other actors within a societal environment at a given time and place-is explored in the context of Communist and early post-Communist Russia (1917−1999). Three value pairs underlying the attitude towards information are explored: individualism and collectivism (the relation of man to the state), universalism and particularism (the relation of man to man), and pluralism versus dominance (the nature of knowledge and truth). Continuities are found between the Communist Soviet Union and post-Communist Russia in their instrumental use of media and information (collectivism), the view on information as a particular privilege rather than a universal right and the monopoly of truth. Post-Communism, therefore, appears not only as an indication of time (i.e. the period after Communism) but also as an indicator of the continuation of basic value orientations over these time periods.

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