The New Russian Book by Birgitte Beck Pristed

Author:Birgitte Beck Pristed
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

But was it rather the Soviet citizen’s notion of the “sweet life” in the West that Prostor’s publication of Chase actually encapsulated? Perhaps the Chase stories were read not only as entertainment literature, but as representative of an alternative Western symbolic order. Examining the passion of late Soviet youth for collecting Western clothes, empty packages and bottles of Western-brand products, and Western jazz and rock records, the anthropologist Alexei Yurchak has explained the complex and often self-contradictory Soviet approaches to the inaccessible “imaginary West”: Western cultural influences were both criticized for bourgeois values and celebrated for internationalism, circulated through unauthorized networks and official state channels, transported from abroad and invented locally. It was within this dispersed discursive milieu between the 1950s and the 1980s that the entity of the Imaginary West emerged as an internal “elsewhere” of late Soviet culture and imagination. (Yurchak 2006, 162)

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