Soviet Self-hatred: The Secret Identities of Postsocialism in Contemporary Russia by Eliot Borenstein

Soviet Self-hatred: The Secret Identities of Postsocialism in Contemporary Russia

Eliot Borenstein

198 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Through close readings of Russian fiction, films, jokes, songs, fan culture, and Internet memes, Borenstein identifies and analyzes four distinct types with which Russians identify or project onto others. They are the sovok (the Soviet yokel); the...

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