Soviet Self-Hatred

The Secret Identities of Postsocialism

About the Project

Until recently, this book was called “Russia’s Alien Nations,” but that is now the title of its introduction. Nontheless, the book examines imaginary constructs of postsocialist Russian identity through stories of encounters with an even more imaginary Other.

 

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Born This Way

For the rich Russians, it’s not just genes; it’s genealogy.

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Moving Beyond Money

The hero of Billionaire does not see money as the immediate solution to all problems.

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The Man Who Has Everything

These novels include: transparent alien artifact hunters, a lost tribe of yeti, and a cryogenically frozen Adolf Hitler maintained by a colony of cloned Valkyries on a secret Antarctic base

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Loving the Leviathan

The State is the Leviathan; the New Russian is somewhere between a piranha and a guppy.

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The Road to Serfdom

The New Russian offers a vision of social stratification that uses capitalism as a way station to serfdom

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No Class

The end of communism was like a game of musical chairs

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Loved Labours Lost

Virtually nothing that the New Russian did to generate money qualified as labor in the Soviet sense.

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