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DESCRIPTION:Book Launch - Jill Dougherty in conversation with author Gulnaz
  Sharafutdinova\n\n \n\nA well-known trope that originated during the Cold
  War\, Homo Sovieticus has experienced a comeback in the public debates ov
 er the last decade or so. It resurfaced specifically after Russia's 2014 a
 nnexation of Crimea\, and is also used to explain Russians’ current atti
 tudes toward the war with Ukraine. What does the term mean? Who created it
 ? Why did it gain currency then\, and why is it used today?  Gulnaz Sharaf
 utdinova’s book\, The Afterlife of the Soviet Man (Bloomsbury Press\, 20
 23) answers these questions by following the biographies and intellectual 
 work of the writers\, dissidents and scientists who contributed to develop
 ing this concept\, including Czesław Miłosz\, Georgy Markov\, Alexander 
 Zinoviev\, Yuri Levada\, and Natalia Kozlova. Her main objective in histor
 icizing the term is to look with a critical eye at the words and terms we 
 rely on\, the meanings they contain\, and the biases they reflect.
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LOCATION:Elliott School of International Affairs\, Lindner Family Conferenc
 e Room (602)
SUMMARY:The Afterlife of the 'Soviet Man': Rethinking Homo Sovieticus
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 n_rethinking_homo_sovieticus
CATEGORIES:Academic
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