LEADER 05664nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910778178203321 005 20230926155749.0 010 $a0-674-26232-8 010 $a0-674-02864-3 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674028647 035 $a(CKB)1000000000787095 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH21620379 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000125590 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11141023 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000125590 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10026786 035 $a(PQKB)11229031 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300353 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10318343 035 $a(OCoLC)923110788 035 $a(DE-B1597)574482 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674028647 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300353 035 $a(OCoLC)1243312056 035 $a(PPN)270233164 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000787095 100 $a19940614d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCommon places $emythologies of everyday life in Russia /$fSvetlana Boym 210 1$aCambridge, Mass. :$cHarvard University Press,$d1994. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 356 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-674-14626-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 293-342) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Theoretical Common Places Rubber Plants and the Soviet Order of Things Archeology of the Common Place A Labyrinth without a Monster The Mythologist as Traveler 1. Mythologies of Everyday Life Byt : Daily Grind and Domestic Trash Poshlost' : Banality, Obscenity, Bad Taste Meshchanstvo : Middle Class, Middlebrow Private Life and Russian Soul Truth, Sincerity, Affectation Kul'turnost' : The Totalitarian Lacquer Box Soviet Songs: From Stalin's Fairy Tale to "Good-bye, Amerika" 2. Living in Common Places: The Communal Apartment Family Romance and Communal Utopia Art and the Housing Crisis: Intellectuals in the Closet Welcome to the Communal Apartment Psychopathology of Soviet Everyday Life Interior Decoration The Ruins of Utopia A Homecoming, 1991 3. Writing Common Places: Graphomania History of the Literary Disease The Forgotten Classics The Genius of the People and the Conceptual Police Glasnost' , Graphomania, and Popular Culture A Taxi Ride with a Graphomaniac 4. Postcommunism, Postmodernism The End of the Soviet World: From the Barricades to the Bazaar Glasnost' Streetwalking: Fallen Monuments and Rising Dolls Stalin's Cinematic Charisma, or History as Kitsch Trashy Jewels of Women Artists Merchant Renaissance and Cultural Scandals The Obscure Object of Advertisement Conclusion: Nostalgia for the Common Place Notes Index 330 8 $aAlternating analysis with personal accounts of Russian life, this text on the "real Russia" conveys the foreignness of the nation and examines peculiar conceptions of private life and common good, of "culture" and "trash", of sincerity and banality.$bWhat is the "real Russia"? What is the relationship between national dreams and kitsch, between political and artistic utopia and everyday existence? Commonplaces of daily living would be perfect clues for those seeking to understand a culture. But all who write big books on Russian life confess their failure to get properly inside Russia, to understand its "doublespeak." Boym is a unique guide. A member of the last Soviet Generation, the Russian equivalent of our Generation X, she grew up in Leningrad and has lived in the West for the past thirteen years. Her book provides a view of Russia that is historically informed, replete with unexpected detail, and everywhere stamped with authority. Alternating analysis with personal accounts of Russian life, Boym conveys the foreignness of Russia and examines its peculiar conceptions of private life and common good, of Culture and Trash, of sincerity and banality. Armed with a Dictionary of Untranslatable Terms, we step around Uncle Fedia asleep in the hall, surrounded by a puddle of urine, and enter the Communal Apartment, the central exhibit of the book. It is the ruin of the communal utopia and a unique institution of Soviet daily life; a model Soviet home and a breeding ground for grassroots informants. Here, privacy is forbidden; here the inhabitants defiantly treasure their bits of "domestic trash," targets of ideological campaigns for the transformation ( perestroika ) of everyday life. Against the Russian and Soviet myths of national destiny, the trivial, the ordinary, even the trashy, take on a utopian dimension. Boym studies Russian culture in a broad sense of the word; she ranges from nineteenth- and twentieth-century intellectual thought to art and popular culture. With her we go walking in Moscow and Leningrad, eavesdrop on domestic life, and discover jokes, films, and TV programs. Boym then reflects on the 1991 coup that marked the end of the Soviet Union and evoked fin de siecle apocalyptic visions. The book ends with a poignant reflection on the nature of communal utopia and nostalgia, on homesickness and the sickness of being home. 606 $aPopular culture$zSoviet Union 606 $aPopular culture$zRussia (Federation) 607 $aSoviet Union$xSocial life and customs 607 $aRussia (Federation)$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aPopular culture 615 0$aPopular culture 676 $a947.08 700 $aBoym$b Svetlana$f1959-2015.$0767610 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778178203321 996 $aCommon places$93718398 997 $aUNINA